Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Why EMC?

Ok, right after I get all aggravated, but more specifically after I sent the below
letter, I come across a web site which is *far* more useful than the many I visited in
trying to get started on emc (http://www.yty.net/cnc/).

Maybe it will be easier when I get back to it.

Sheepish Steve

Steve Smith wrote:

> What I couldn't find was a description anywhere of which modules were needed to do
> what. I also couldn't figure out what to download for the RT kernel for the same
> reasons. I'm no stranger to unix (also no expert), in my opinion the explanations
> of how to put emc together without using bdi are practically nonexistent. Did I
> look in the wrong places? It seems like http://www.linuxcnc.org/ should be a good
> place.
>
> As you can probably tell, my experiences in trying to figure out how to get started
> with emc made me pretty frustrated. Despite good feedback on this group, my
> experiences led me to believe it would take tons of work to bring up something I
> wasn't sure would do me any good when I was done. I'm now on a Vector/cncpro path
> that I'm fairly happy with. If I were going to try it again, I would probably go
> bdi.
>
> I guess my point (besides venting) is that whoever is running the emc web pages
> still has some work ahead of them.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Smith
>
> Jon Elson wrote:
>
> > Steve Smith wrote:
> >
> > > The reason I'm not using EMC is that I found no clear link to a working
> > > executable, and no clues at all about how to install it. This really put me
> > > off since the pages I looked on were supposed to be the right places. I'm not
> > > new to Unix or Linux. I suppose it would have been easy to do a bdi, but I
> > > didn't. Maybe someday.
> >
> > You won't find a single working executable, as EMC is a system of separate
> > programs, one of them not strictly a Linux executable, but a kernel module.
> > You also need a real time kernel.
> >
> > Jon
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