Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 20:59 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: .snip Also found your DD-WRT Where, its not supposed to be visible Kirk, or are you talking about its web page? Sorry about being vague. I just get a login prompt with Enter user name and password for DD-WRT on port 8080. I run openWRT

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6 (Steve Blackmore)

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:19:09 -0700, you wrote: I will give you this,EMC is not for someone who has no interest in tinkering with Linux or electronics Which is precisely why it's an elitist thing and prospective users are scared away. I have no problem with the electronics, or CNC (5 machines

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6 (Steve Blackmore)

2008-08-11 Thread Sven Wesley
2008/8/11 Steve Blackmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:19:09 -0700, you wrote: I will give you this,EMC is not for someone who has no interest in tinkering with Linux or electronics Which is precisely why it's an elitist thing and prospective users are scared away. I have no

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Steve Blackmore
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:03:57 +0100, you wrote: Your attitude doesn't help. I can imagine your response to a newbie on the Mach list who posted a similar message to yours. It would probably have been less restrained than the replies you have had. Never imagine, it's always a disappointment

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread John Thornton
Steve, What is really on your mind? You come out with both barrels blasting your bound to get some flak... On 11 Aug 2008 at 2:58, Steve Blackmore wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:21:11 -0600, you wrote: Gee Steve, one would assume that if you subscribe to the EMC USERS mailing list that

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Kenneth Lerman
Hey John, you have a typo in your last line. You wrote: They are always looking for more help. You should have written: We are always looking for more help. :-) Regards, Ken John Thornton wrote: Steve, What is really on your mind? You come out with both barrels blasting your bound

Re: [Emc-users] LOGOPEN

2008-08-11 Thread Jeff Epler
Unfortunately, (LOGOPEN) is not actually implemented in emc 2.2.x. It is a new feature in the development version of the software, but documentation for it was accidentally included in emc 2.2. I will remove the mention of (LOGOPEN) from the next update of the documentation. It is unlikely that

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Jon Elson wrote: John Kasunich wrote: Jon Elson wrote: One way out of this would be to have this GPIO on a separate EPP port (unless the GPIO hardware is the same as the motion hardware). We are talking about the Mesa FPGA based boards, with 72 I/O pins on one board. So yes, the GPIO is

Re: [Emc-users] Stepper configuration

2008-08-11 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
paul_c wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2008, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: It looks like rtai has semaphores but doesnt support blocking in the kernel (no run queues). Maybe something like spinlocks could be built around the non-blocking semaphore calls. You want one of the rt_spinlock calls

Re: [Emc-users] RELEASED: emc 2.2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Moses O McKnight
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 11:06 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: As for editors, there are several available. I'm partial to the vi/vim offerings myself. If you're going to recommend a command-line text editor to a newbie, I would recommend nano over vi/vim any day! At least with nano you can easily