Varkon

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:46:30 -0500
From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
Subject: Re: Subject: Varkon

>John Stevenson wrote:

>Not knowing the first thing about Linux but it seems like I shall have to have a

>> play over winter I'm going to ask some possibly stupid questions.
>> I have read where you can run some windows programs under Linux, Can you also
>> run DOS under linux??

>Yes, absolutely, but it can't access any hardware in non-standard ways.
>In other words, if a program thinks it is sending a printout to a printer on the
>parallel port, it is really sending it to the Linux spooler, not the physical printer
>port. So, a program to drive steppers or read DRO encoders through the
>parallel port would not work right off the bat. (I think I read somewhere
>that there is a way to turn the parallel port over to the DOS emulator, so that
>these operations would be permitted.)

>> If you can there are still some copies of Bobcad V14 out there that will fill
>> the CAM needs and Generic Cadd is still one of the best CAD programs ever made.

>I have Bobcad/CAM, and will have to put Wine on and see if it will work.
>Ugh, a dongle! On the parallel port! Oh, well, maybe it WON'T work, then!

>Jon

Jon,
I meant more along the lines of a CAM system where you could process your part
and save it as the G code. TAP file [ or whatever ] to pass to EMC.
I accept the ned to print out CAD programs but I was more concerned with trying
to answer the CAM side of it.Bobcad V14 is a DOS program and has no software
protection.
At the present time for anybody interested Fred Smith at IMServ is having an
Auction on Bobcad. the last copy went for about $400 I believe.



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Regards,
John Stevenson
Nottingham, England