TCL/TK XEMC

Fred et al

A few months ago I posted my own TCL/TK GUI for CNC that I was
writing. IT is on my web page at:

http://users.nni.com/daveland/metal.htm

Download it and untar it. I used it as a tool to learn some
tcl/tk stuff. I have a few suggestions for your version.

1) Write the interface in interpreted TCL/TK NOT in "C" with
TCL/TK embeded . This allows more users to mucK with it more
easily since no compling is needed.

2) Develope a "socket" interface to emcmot so that the TCL/TK
GUI comunicates to the motors/interpreter via a network socket.
Data rate here is low, so it is very easy and portable. The
side benefit is that the GUI can run on any machine ( or more
than one at the same time) on a network. The motor control
then runs on a box that need not run X!!!

I would be interested in contributing code... What do you need?
dave