Re: Linux and DRO

> I have a question for the experts. If I am using LINUX for EMC, how do I use
> Tom's DRO, any chance this will be changed so It will run in LINUX?
> Also I have a question, could the DRO be used as a position feedback device
> to check on the movements of the steppers?
> bill

I had talked with Tom some about attempting a port to linux and
voluntered to help, but my dro computer is still running Dos at the
moment so I haven't been exactly impatient to get to work on it.
Simply reading the enocder interface is fairly simple under any
operating system that permits direct access to hardware ports - I
wrote myself a custom application in BASIC to do manual numeric
cutting of a curved taper. The text mode version of the program
could probably be made to work under the linux dos emulator (dosemu)
when properly configured to allow access to hardware ports.

Chris

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