Re: Re: Engraving and engine turning

Get rid of that" toy "computer :)

The doc file is a plain ascii text file

You made the mistake of getting a mac. Dos has been a defacto standard for
quite a few years. It made Bill billions. Yes the newer OS are OK but they
don't run HSM the machines very well thru the parallel port. Most of the low
cost programs require DOS and there are problems if you try running DOS CNC
problems in windows 3.1, 95 or 98.
Everyone has DOS. Don't you?

:)
Dan


-----Original Message-----
From: David M. Munro <Munro@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, July 29, 1999 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Engraving and engine turning

>From: "David M. Munro" <Munro@...>
>
>>From: "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@...>
>>
>>You can d/l dacad3d from www.metalworking.com look in the shareware room.
>>D/l the files in one of the zipped files is the program danplot. It works
>>very well. What I liked about it was that it would read hp-gl files also.
>>The problem is that it doesn't read standard G code. Dan Hudgins chose his
>>own way of creating a tool path file. I have mastered that but like G code
>>better.
>>Dan
>
>Thanks for the information, Dan. I have downloaded the program, not that
>it is any good for use on my mac, but so that I can read the documentation,
>which, as I suspected, appears as word files.
>
>The program works on a DOS (not windows) machine, and this brings up the
>question of where I would best acquire something as obsolete as an Edison
>phonograph, while still being reliable enough and fast enough to power a
>mill. At what phase of PC evolution was DOS completely abandoned? I went
>straight from commedore vic 20 to my first of a series of mac's so I am
>completely ignorant about DOS.
>
>David M. Munro
>
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