On Tuesday 28 February 2017 19:05:09 John Thornton wrote: > Anytime and I know what it means to get up out of my chair and walk to > the garage to get/do something and when I get there I've not a clue > why I'm there... usually it comes back to me at some point. My Dad > suffered from dementia the last few years he was here and hated not > being in full control but never gave up and took care of himself right > up to the end using little tricks like sticky notes all over the > place. > > I've never gotten a round-tuit to try and keep the pdf up to date with > the man pages :) and I actually prefer the html documents now but used > to prefer the pdf. Did you know you can build a local copy of the html > with ./configure --enable-documentation=html > > JT > Ahh, no. But I don't keep the full sources handy either. On any of my machines.
Are you saying the html docs on the wiki are more up to date? That can't be, they do not cover the 2.8-pre stuffs that I run on everything here but this machine. Only up to current 2.7, and I've had more trouble with bugs and such with the official release than I've ever had with the -pre's, and this has been true here since 2.5 days. But I am also one of the guys who "phones home" quickly if I suspect a bug in a -pre. From my perspective, that bug I find and report means it will never get into a final and break a pile of tools in a money making shop. My occasional paper cut or money bleed from a broken tool, and reporting it, is my way of saying thanks to all of you contributors for a truly great piece of machining software I didn't have to buy at half a kilobuck a seat. Not to mention its generally fixed with the next days update. Whats not to like? ;-) That of course means I also yell for help more often when the manpage is so concise its terse and doesn't adequately explain. That is often the case when the person writing the code also writes the manpage. He knows so much about the code that he assumes everyone knows, that never gets into the manpage because the assumption is that its common knowledge. And before we've some bent noses here, I am at least as guilty of that, and I know it, as anyone else here is. Thank you John. Thanks. > On 2/28/2017 3:53 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 February 2017 15:44:48 John Thornton wrote: > >> Gene you might be looking at threads not motion... > >> > >> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man9/threads.9.html > >> > >> http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man9/motion.9.html > >> > >> JT > > > > I think you've hit it John. I recall reading about that via its man > > page, and had since forgotten it, having reached that age where I > > can't always recall what I had for breakfast, or even if I had > > breakfast since thats not an everyday occurrence, governed by the > > morning glucose reading. > > > > Not in the big pdf, except a very terse description, but it does > > have a manpage, from which I extracted this: > > > > loadrt threads name1=name period1=period [fp1=<0|1>] > > [<thread-2-info>] [<thread-3-info>] > > > > And I am assuming the fp1 tells it floating point or not. And that > > worked, I now have a 10ms thread running for this slower stuff > > driven by human hands. > > > > Thanks John. > > > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
