Re: GSOC 2013 project Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System

2013-04-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 20:28:04 + Amit Rawat aami...@gmail.com wrote: GSOC posted the list of selected organization for GSOC 2013 and I am highly happy that FreeBSD is among the selected organization. I am a third year student interested to work in the field of embedded system. I

Re: considering i386 as a tier 1 architecture

2013-04-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 00:48:08 -0400 Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Hi, I am writing this email to discuss the i386 architecture in FreeBSD. if not for the date, I just wonder, what significance it real has. Erich ___

Re: Reviewing a FAQ change about LORs

2013-02-07 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 19:32:58 -0500 Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: Does someone here mind reviewing http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=174226 for correctness. Please feel free to post alternate diffs as a reply as well. your text makes sense and is easy to understand.

Re: using FreeBSD to create a completely new OS

2012-12-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:08:11 -0500 Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Forgot to mention this project vary well turn into my PhD thesis I would then extremely careful with Java. There are many reasons why assembler and C are still the languages used for OS programming. Erich

Re: 9.x -- New Install -- serious partition misalignment

2012-12-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:18:57 -0800 Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com wrote: If possibility (c) applies, then I would also like to know if anybody has any suggestions for how I might be able to get this problem escalated so that (hopefully) it gets dealt with before 9.1-RELEASE

Re: Threaded 6.4 code compiled under 9.0 uses a lot more memory?..

2012-10-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:12:22 + Karl Pielorz kpielorz_...@tdx.co.uk wrote: Can anyone think of any quick pointers as to why some code originally written under 6.4 amd64 - when re-compiled under 9.0-stable amd64 takes up a *lot* more memory when running? is it still the same

Re: Threaded 6.4 code compiled under 9.0 uses a lot more memory?..

2012-10-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:59:46 + Karl Pielorz kpielorz_...@tdx.co.uk wrote: --On 30 October 2012 18:27 +0700 Erich Dollansky erichfreebsdl...@ovitrap.com wrote: is it still the same compiler? Depends how you mean 'the same' - on the 6.4 system it shows: cc (GCC) 3.4.6

Re: 'device atapicam' breaks the build

2012-10-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:42:44 -0700 Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Following atapicam(4), I added 'device atapicam' into sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC. This causes 'make buildkernel' to fail: ld -d -warn-common -r -d -o zlib.ko.debug zlib.o : export_syms awk -f /usr/src/sys/conf/kmod_syms.awk

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 suddenly freezing

2012-09-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:21:59 -0600 Charles R Martin crmar...@corp.sgi.com wrote: We have a web host installation using FreeBSD 8.0, Tomcat, and Java. We ship many copies of this, and haven't changed the OS load in several months. In the last 72 hours, we've had two different systems

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:39:43 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: desktop environment or similar ideas? Tell you what: When you have at least 75% of the user population of FreeBSD agreeing on which window manager we should offer as the default, we

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:35:40 +0200 Lorenzo Cogotti miciam...@hotmail.it wrote: I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official supported graphical environment. for taking resources away from FreeBSD itself? I do not see the need for this as long there is a single

Re: Under FREEBSD network control.

2012-07-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wednesday 18 July 2012 10:17:31 cz li wrote: I would like to build a bridge using FREEBSD system.At the same time, they can do the network traffic control.How to do it? if I remember right, it is all in the handbook. You might also check man rc.conf and man ifconfig We will help you

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-04-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 30 April 2012 12:14:39 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Another way to promote FreeBSD - show Solaris first. Yesterday just to look downloaded from oracle. Incredibly slow, no idea what's going on not only while installing but when trying to do anything and understand /etc/

Re: Never forget a special trick...

2012-03-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 05 March 2012 12:25:10 Julian Elischer wrote: On 3/4/12 12:47 PM, Devin Teske wrote: On Mar 4, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Phillip Spring wrote: Dear anonymous open-source enthusiasts friends, How to echo a string backwards into a terminal? For example (or something like this):

Re: Freebsd on the sun x4440

2011-05-28 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I would like to suggest to try 8.2. It is my experience that the different version behave very different on the same hardware. It does not mean that the newer version is the better. As an example, I have a machine here on 7.x as 8.0 did not support the USB hardware found. After a machine

Re: SIGSTOP and SIGKILL

2011-03-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
via the DEADLKRES option, see NOTES for more details) and the sleepq_type() function for sleepqueues. Erich On Mar 13, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Erich Dollansky er...@alogreentechnologies.com wrote: Hi, On Monday 14 March 2011 11:41:21 Ravi Murty wrote: Any good solutions

Re: SIGSTOP and SIGKILL

2011-03-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 14 March 2011 11:41:21 Ravi Murty wrote: Any good solutions to this problem? did you try your program on 8.2? Erich ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To

Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off

2010-02-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, let me do. On 04 February 2010 am 04:44:04 Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Oliver Fromme wrote: Alexander Best wrote: No -- *Please* make sure that the disks are only spun down upon an actual power-off command (i.e. when reboot() is Could you elaborate a little on why

Re: our little daemon abused as symbol of the evil

2010-02-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 02 February 2010 pm 23:21:12 Christoph Kukulies wrote: Look here: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-51396-2.html it reminds me of movies in which good guys use Apple, bad guys Windows. Erich ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: enable ECC in OS code?

2009-08-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 27 August 2009 am 06:53:36 Steve Watt wrote: In 4a954a35.4030...@icyb.net.ua, a...@icyb.net.ua wrote: Assuming that ECC data lanes are connected between the two on motherboard, and given that BIOS doesn't perform any ECC setup (nor there is any option to control that) - would it be

Re: multiple interrupts between cli and sti

2008-02-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Andriy Gapon wrote: I cannot tell you if this is still the same for modern designs. ... - iret - interrupted again This was the behaviour earlier. Is this a deterministic behavior ? Or some timings are at play? The PIC should never release the Interrupt signal to the CPU as long as

Re: Architectures with strict alignment?

2007-12-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:12:04PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:14:11AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: I.e., it seems that gcc does not feel too guilty generating unaligned half-word writes on i386. :( this should not be a problem inside a

Re: Architectures with strict alignment?

2007-12-31 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:38:43PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:12:04PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:14:11AM -0800, Kip Macy wrote: I.e., it seems that gcc does not feel too guilty

Re: Architectures with strict alignment?

2007-12-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ivan Voras wrote: Hi, Which of the architectures FreeBSD supports (if any) have strict memory alignment requirements? (in the sense that accessing a 32-bit integer not aligned on a 32-bit address results in a hardware trap/exception). isn't this the case with SPARC and Itanium? I know,

Re: Architectures with strict alignment?

2007-12-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
. Erich -Kip On Dec 29, 2007 12:11 AM, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ivan Voras wrote: Hi, Which of the architectures FreeBSD supports (if any) have strict memory alignment requirements? (in the sense that accessing a 32-bit integer not aligned on a 32-bit address results

Re: OT: C++ Template Functions

2007-12-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: The problem is most probably related to the fact that the group of member functions is only discriminated by return type (i.e., the template parameter defines the return type), not by parameter (which could be inferred). if nothing got changed over the

Re: OT: C++ Template Functions

2007-12-27 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Donnerstag, 27. Dezember 2007 16:42:29 schrieb Erich Dollansky: Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: The problem is most probably related to the fact that the group of member functions is only discriminated by return type (i.e., the template parameter defines

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally find that xpdf looks OK. Same here, though I do remember to have that cramped characters problem before. I think it was in PDFs created by OpenOffice swriter. When I used the other OS to print these PDFs, there were cramped characters THe other OS?

Re: Video memory as swap under FreeBSD

2007-10-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Achim Patzner wrote: Am 14.10.2007 um 10:24 schrieb Alexander Motin: Dag-Erling Smørgrav пишет: Arne Schwabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VIdeo RAM may also not be as stable as your main RAM. I mean nobody if a bit flips in video ram. That may have been true fifteen years ago, but not

Re: OS choice

2007-09-06 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, FreeBSD should not have anz limits zou will ever reach if zou provide the right hardware. You should also consider the licence. FreeBSD doesn't force you to publish any of your own work. Erich Kirc Gover wrote: We are in the stage of planning and research for a commercial development

Re: freeBSD

2007-08-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, shyam burkule wrote: Hi All I am new to freeBSD .I am doing engineering from india...and doing my graduate project in memory management area.I really need a patch that it seems to me that you are the perfect guy the provide the patch as you have all the knowledge. Erich implements

Re: Core Duo - only one cpu being used

2006-05-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Eric Anderson wrote: All processes are on cpu 0. Output of sysctl dev.cpu shows: can you show all tasks running? Erich ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

Re: Core Duo - only one cpu being used

2006-05-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, this is hard to believe. Just add -S to the command line or enter S while top is running. Top should show you then on top the two idle threads. Erich Eric Anderson wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Eric Anderson wrote: All processes are on cpu 0. Output of sysctl dev.cpu shows

Re: Core Duo - only one cpu being used

2006-05-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Eric Anderson wrote: PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 0 0:00 99.02% idle: cpu1 2653 root 1 1280 18564K 17560K RUN0 0:01 34.00% cc1plus could it be that it is just a

Re: Core Duo - only one cpu being used

2006-05-04 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Eric Anderson wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Eric Anderson wrote: PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 root 1 171 52 0K 8K CPU1 0 0:00 99.02% idle: cpu1 2653 root 1 1280 18564K 17560K RUN0 0:01

Re: workstation DNS issue

2006-04-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ashok Shrestha wrote: %less /etc/resolv.conf #search 192.168.1.1 nameserver 204.127.202.19 nameserver 216.148.227.79 nameserver 68.87.68.162 before going deeper. Did you try to change the sequence of these entries? Try it and compare then the results. Erich

Re: Build Kernels fails with

2006-04-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 21 April 2006 12:24 am, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, ist looks to me that this is still true for a 32 bit kernel. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-July/005592.html This error message appears if_ural.o(.text+0x205): In function

Build Kernels fails with

2006-04-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, ist looks to me that this is still true for a 32 bit kernel. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2005-July/005592.html This error message appears if_ural.o(.text+0x205): In function `ural_next_scan': /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/if_ural.c:699: undefined reference to

Re: install the FreeBSD (notbook Toshiba)

2006-03-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Eder wrote: this sounds German. Pliss, Please? I am trying to install the FreeBSD in one notbook Toshiba Tecra M3 S336, and simply the following error happens: This is not an error message. It is just a status message. Timecounter TSC frequency 1862079434 Hz quality 800

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Gary Jennejohn wrote: Borja Marcos writes: Søren Schmidt writes: It seems to me that the worst-case scenario, dropping the laptop, would result in extremely high G-loading in microsecomds rather than milliseconds. Not much can be done to save the disk in such a short time. The sensor

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tuesday 23 August 2005 21:38, Erich Dollansky wrote: The sensor will notice already the start of the move. The notebook will then normally be accalerated with 1G as it simply goes into a free fall. If the heads are then moved away from the disks and the notebook

Re: IBM Active Protection System Approach

2005-08-22 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what would be the best approach to implement aps on FreeBSD? Go as deep as possible into the disk driver. The reason is pretty simple. Just stop any write access to the disk as soon as the machine starts moving above a given limit. If the movement is above a

Re: FreeBSD desktop?

2005-08-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:10 AM 8/2/2005 +0200, Karel Miklav wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Karel. I got my FreeBSD desktop up and running. It's on X window and gnome. I am not sure about setting up the window manager, but may try that You have already one window manager

Re: To C++ or not to C++

2005-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Maslan wrote: i don't think this is the suitable mailling list to ask this question aren't hackers the people who have the real-life experience? What will a C programmer tell? What will a Java programmer tell? Isn't it much better to ask here? Erich On 6/24/05, Seán C. Farley [EMAIL

Re: To C++ or not to C++

2005-06-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Peter Jeremy wrote: On Sat, 2005-Jun-25 16:37:00 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: i don't think this is the suitable mailling list to ask this question aren't hackers the people who have the real-life experience? What will a C programmer tell? What will a Java programmer tell? Isn't

Re: To C++ or not to C++

2005-06-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Ryan Sommers wrote: Anyway, without getting into too much detail. Anyone had to make this choice on a project? What were your thoughts in retrospect? What would you have done different, what would stay the same... No matter what kind of project I did after the C++ hype was over it was in

Re: Long uptime 5.2.1 server

2005-06-18 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Dimitry Andric wrote: On 2005-06-18 at 10:30:58 Kevin Day wrote: We've got a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 server that's been up for 460 days now, with pretty heavy use the whole time (70GB+ per day http traffic, 140 hits/sec, etc). Funny that some people insist on complaining about 5.x

Re: X86 machine code enter and FreeBSD kernel

2005-06-10 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Reko Turja wrote: I received no reply on this question at questions mailing list, so I try asking this here. Hope I'm not asking this in completely wrong list. In recent discussion in OpenWatcom lists it was noticed that at least certain addressing modes of assembler ENTER instruction

Re: Version 4.4 sick and dying

2005-06-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Sydney Hole Owen Huffaker wrote: Wonder if you can give me a little advise. But not much more. I do have a copy of BSD 4.5 and 5.o from a FreeBSD Unleashed book by Michael Urban and Brian Tieman. I also have the absolute BSD by Michael Lucas. I would not touch them as they are

Re: Screen Resolution

2005-05-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Herv Kergourlay wrote: xorgconfig I launch this tools but I 'm not sure of the screen resolution details, vertical refresh rate, horizontal sync rate, ... I fill the answers with standard values Do not do this. You must have the details for you monitor. Especially if it is a CRT, it

Re: Screen Resolution

2005-05-30 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Herv Kergourlay wrote: Erich Dollansky a crit : Herv Kergourlay wrote: It has to be there. bad luck for me I don't know if it's important but I'm in a vmware configuration for FreeBSD, vmware supply a tools kit but the tools is not available specifically for FreeBSD 5.3 or 5.4

Re: Screen Resolution

2005-05-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, what X do you run? Did you configure X for a higher resolution? Erich Hervé Kergourlay wrote: Just one simple question on the screen resolution on FreeBSD 5.3 I change the xinitrc to launch gnome-wm and gnome-panel but I can't change the resolution in the Desktop Preferences / Screen

Re: Screen Resolution

2005-05-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: Erich Dollansky a écrit : I install FreeBSD 5.3 with the standard option, the X process in /usr/X11R6/bin/X is running So, it should be X.Org. I run startx to start the X server edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf There should be a section 'Screen

Re: Screen Resolution

2005-05-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: Erich Dollansky a écrit : edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf I don't have any xorg.conf in /etc/X11 ? the directory /etc/X11 is empty pkg_info give me : xorg-6.7.0_1 It looks like that you did not configure your X server. Check the handbook how to do

Re: Screen Resolution

2005-05-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Hervé Kergourlay wrote: thanks for the doc It seems that in FreeBSD 5.3, Xorg is installed as default but there is no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 This is normal. I deinstall and reinstall Xorg manually but there is no more xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 so I can't modify the screen

Re: Files in C.

2005-05-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Pablo Mora wrote: I know that this is not the place to consult on programming C. But I am so enthusiastic in FreeBSD that I want to learn more on the language C and someday coming to be a small part of which you already To get this a bit in line with FreeBSD: FreeBSD comes with the GNU

Re: imminent disk failure ?

2005-04-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, you never can exclude it, but did you check the cabling? It is not always the drive itself. Erich H. S. wrote: Hi gang, I have a server running 4.X for almost two years now, without problems - rock solid as it should be - yesterday the server became unresponsive, now that I have access again,

Re: clock time in milliseconds into a c program

2005-01-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: For this snippet (which deals with a B+tree) i got results of the form 0.3445866564 microseconds, which means 344.5867 miliseconds.. etc.. You mixed the units up 1 second is 1 000 ms which is 1 000 000 µs which is 1 000 000 000 ns. Erich

Re: cpu update

2004-12-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Tony Sheehan wrote: I have a PC which has a AMD 1900 XP cpu and a Gigabyte 7VTXE+ motherboard. I decided to upgrade to a 2600 Barton chip which seemed OK according to the Gigabyte site. However, after installing the chip my system crashes frequently (and randomly?) often when opening

Re: SMP on quad xeons

2004-09-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Posted to freebsd-smp but didn't get too many replies, so I apologize for I am on that list too but I can't remember your posting. cross posting ahead of time. Need to configure groupware server and multiprotocol wireless proxy for aproximatly 2500 accounts.

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-03 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, talk about the devil: http://news3.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-06/03/content_1506278.htm This is a potential target application. Erich ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Aniruddha Bohra wrote: i was thinking about implementing Robust TCP/IP connections .. but somebody told me that is not very consistent , and i think so also , Did you consider fault-tolerant TCP/IP connections to multiple servers? See these : This one is heavy-weight, whole process

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Saber ZRELLI wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Saber ZRELLI wrote: Hello Dear Seniors , i was looking for some interesting issue related to FreeBSD networking , to make it my master thesis , but i couldn't find such a topic , certainly because i'm not a FreeBSD expert ( but i

Re: suggestions ?

2004-06-02 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Saber ZRELLI wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: if my browser is connected to google and yahoo , then i need to distinguish what data is coming from whish server , so it can be treated correctly ... It will not work for google or yahoo how they work currently. I think i'm missing something ... Yes

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Martin Cracauer wrote: Tim Kientzle wrote on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:22:10AM -0800: Ouch! I've tested a bunch of 'business-grade' desktops around my office, and they all run 40-60 watts during normal use (not including monitor) with peak power at boot time up to 70-80 watts. This includes

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Marcin Dalecki wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: The actual power can go down to less than 10% if the CPU is idle. Are these business-grade ones maybe equipped with mobile P-4s? No, it is just the fact that modern CPU are most of the time just idle. Which is bullshit becouse most

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Martin Cracauer wrote: Hi, those who followed might have noticed I was shopping for a notebook to replace some of my desktop system. To make it short, the notebook vendors all pissed me off so good that I'm not going to get a notebook (details on request) so I am going for other options. I

Re: CC swiper / Cash machine

2003-10-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, take a look at the web-site of Schlumberger. They do machines like this. All the documentation needed should be there. There is even a standard behind. Most machines follow this standard. Only the fields vary. Yes, most machines are connected via RS232. The protocol is pretty easy to