Re: Re: BDI

Gene

There is one additional issue here that has to do with supermount. Mounting
in this context is the process of making the file system that is on a
removable medium to be a directory on the main file system. (Not the movie
grumpier old men) Supermount tries to do this whenever there is a call to a
device. But it doesn't recognize cp from a terminal. If the floppy is not
mounted prior to the cp command, the command will appear to complete but
nothing will be transfered to the disk. It will be transferred to
/mnt/floppy as a local directory instead.

Two solutions.

One is the text command way. First issue the terminal command

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

If you hear the floppy drive growl then you were successful. If it complains
about already being mounted issue either command

umount /dev/fd0 -or- umount /mnt/floppy

and then the mount command.

The second is the drag and drop way and there are at least three
possibilities here.

A - Click on the little house on the panel (bottom bar) so that you start a
kfm window. Navigate to the directory that you want to move a file
from. Then insert your floppy and click on the floppy icon. Now you have
two kfm's working and you can drag from one to the other with the l;eft mouse
button. Dragging gets you around the floppy mount issues because supermount
knows how to work pretty reliably with the K desktop.

B - Click on the little house on the panel (bottom bar) so that you start a
kfm window. Navigate to the directory that you want to move a file from.
Click on the little gear near the top right corner of that kfm browser and it
will make a copy of itself. Navigate this one to the directory you want to
move files into and drag them across.

C - In the kfm context you can also right click and choose copy and then move
to the directory you want to copy to, right click again and select paste.

Ray

>    From: Jon Elson <elson@...>
> Subject: Re: BDI
>
> Gene wrote:
> > I changed the cycle time var. and it works good again. I'm happy until
> > the next disaster. I made a directory on the floppy called gcode, and
> > then I tried to copy the ini file to floppy and here's what I got.
> > #usr/local/emc/emc.ini/ cp /mnt/floppy/gcode
> > and it says permission denied. I was logged in as root. Is it not
> > possible To do this?
>
> If I understand what you have typed above, you asked the shell to
> execute usr/local/emc/emc.ini as a program, and then us cp
> /mnt/floppy/gcode as the parameters to this.  permission was denied because
> usr/local/emc/emc.ini is not marked as an executable file - which it sure
> isn't.
>
> Correct syntax would be
>
> #cp       /usr/local/emc/emc.ini     /mnt/floppy/gcode
>
> command           input file                 output file
>
> I added extra spaces in the command line to make it clearer.
>
> Jon