Re: I-LPT & step/dir servo amps

Carlos,
I could agree with you except for one thing, as soon as his post was called
into question, Hoyt began calling names and making personal attacks and
attempted to discredit people with his statements.
I-LPT is a program that has its place and uses but it needs a front end to
be usable. If you are a programmer that is fine but if you are using a CAD
program to create your part you then have to convert to G code and then use
another program to convert to I-LPT. That means you buy the CAD, you buy
I-LPT and then you have to get or make a front end for I-LPT. EMC is free
and is direct from G code to machine.
Darrell

----- Original Message -----
From: Carlos Guillermo <Carlos@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 4:34 AM
Subject: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] I-LPT & step/dir servo amps


> From: "Carlos Guillermo" <Carlos@...>
>
> Gar -
>
> I find Hoyt's comments just plain frank; nothing deeper. I can understand
> your views, however, and how the whole issue might be taken a different
way.
> Since most of us don't get the chance to talk face-to-face, I think alot
of
> our meanings and intents won't always come across as intended. All those
> subtle facial expressions and verbal nuances get filtered out real quick
> with Courier font, and I for one am not up to speed on all the
"netiquette"
> and special symbols [ ;o)... etc. ]. I've been accused of being
hardheaded
> and abrasive sometimes, but the best I can do is to try to be patient,
> tolerant, and I'm learning to be thick-skinned.
>
> Sincerely,
> Carlos Guillermo
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gar Willis [mailto:garfield@...]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 10:44 PM
> > To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> > Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] I-LPT & step/dir servo amps
> >
> >
> > From: garfield@... (Gar Willis)
> >
> > On Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:08:31 -0400, "Carlos Guillermo"
> > <Carlos@...> wrote:
> >
> > >> >I'm happy to see some discussion about Indexer LPT, even
> > though it *is* a
> > >> >for-profit product.
> > >>
> > >Hoyt wrote:
> > >> Why should that matter? I see discussion of a number of
> > >> commercial products in here.
> > >
> > >Carlos writes:
> > >You're right, It shouldn't. Ever since the recent battle,
> > though, I've been
> > >a little gun-shy about pushing any software that isn't open-sourced and
> > >free.
> >
> > Let's keep the facts straight, shall we? There *never* is nor was any
> > problem discussing either kind of software, AFAIK, until Mr. Guano there
> > questioned people's motives for bothering with EMC, cuz it was sooooo
> > hard to set up, in the midst of touting his own stuff. Fine to tout your
> > own stuff, that ISN'T why he got flamed by me. It was for peeing on
> > others who don't happen to share his 'product vision', and instead find
> > MANY good reasons for being interested in EMC, besides his snotty
> > suggestion that we do so because we wanted to "deal in discomfort",
> > whatever that drivel meant.
> >
> > I'll quote you from his last on the subject, since you've obviously
> > revised it a good deal in your own mind:
> >
> > Quoting Mr. Guano from Tue, 12 Oct 1999 07:34:53,
> > >You do have to admit the setting up linux/emc seems to be
> > >difficult and tedious and a question about the motives for
> > pursuing that is
> > >a natural one.
> > and also from the same missive:
> > >...I do wonder about their purposes: whether all that is to
> > share info as you
> > >claim is the object, or to deal in discomfort.
> >
> > Sorry to have to "deal in discomfort" some more, but the *truth* seems
> > to have that effect on you, hence the quotations.
> >
> > If Mr. Guano thot he was justified in sliming people's motives for their
> > interest in EMC, because he felt his own commercial interests in L-IPT
> > or whatever, were brought into question by someone else, he should have
> > answered just that one person, instead of painting this
> > psuedo-psychobabble bullshit about us guys being interested in EMC "just
> > for the pain". I still find his comments on that subject to this day to
> > be totally disrespectful and contemptuous of many of the people on this
> > list, and utterly without any justification whatsoever. I think he owes
> > us an apology.
> >
> > Lemme illustrate, Carlo. Remember when you came on this list and
> > suggested your grand plan for the ideal product in CNC? A proposed
> > business venture of your own? Did you get flamed and despised for having
> > such aspirations? Nope. But IF you had said, "I'm suggesting this
> > proposed product, because I see all yous guys struggling with EMC, and
> > think that's kinda sick, you must love pain or somethin". THEN what do
> > you think your reception would have been? That's what your pal Guano
> > there did. Go back and READ his posts if you can take it.
> >
> > You keep distorting what happened, buddy, and I'll keep reminding you of
> > the "painful" truth about it. See, I'm interested in EMC, so you gotta
> > know I just LUV "dealing in discomfort". Heh.
> >
> > Gar
> >
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