On Saturday 08 December 2012 18:47:46 andy pugh did opine: > On 8 December 2012 21:25, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > What we need is a short man page that describes the syntax of the > > various "first word" of a line settings, loadrt, addf, setp, net, > > etc. > > man halcmd. > > OK, so you actually have to be psychic to guess that.
Chuckle & a VBG, Andy. I have in the past, been accused of similar attributes, like walking on water, and possibly psychic by those who will never have anything apart and spread all over the bench, but that was because I could do that stuff by rote, almost in my sleep having already done it many times. Familiarity with some of that stuff leads to wonderment if someone watching has never seen it before, when I reach over and pull a part out and warm up the iron while taking the last few screws out of a pcb cover, just because I already know to a 95% certainty, what part I am going to change before the pcb has been pulled & put in a work holder on the bench. Camera lenses are a mystery to most, but I hired an assistant, quite a few years back to do some of the repetitive PM tasks, and as I was re-assembling a damaged lens from a news camera, he asked me how I could sit so low in that chair & I replied "huh?" and he said "how can you sit that low with cajones as obviously big as I had to have to do something like that. To me it was a shrug, having done it dozens of times before. But it does feel nice to be able to impress the frogs so easily. ;-) I have had a voltmeter probe in one hand since '47, a scope probe largely replaced it in '51, and a hot soldering tool in the other since late '47, but now the short term memory is going to hell in a hand basket. So I have to print this stuff if I want to re-study it tomorrow while standing in my shop in front of the machine in 40F weather. Sad state of affairs to me, and I thank all of you for tolerating it. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis. I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
