Re: Re: GE 1050CM control

Harlan

If you plan on a dual boot system, Linux can mount the DOS/MS-Win partitions
and you can directly run that file with EMC.

Ray

>    From: Jon Elson <elson@...>
> Subject: Re: GE 1050CM control
>
> Harlan Gustafson wrote:
> > I'm not thinking that the control IS a PC!  How would one transfer a 2 Gb
> > .nc file to the Linux computer?  The file would be generated in MasterCam
> > or similar cadcam software.
>
> With a network.  Twisted-pair ethernet cards are available under $20, and
> Win95 and up support them almost as well as Linux does.  It should only
> take a few minutes to send such a file, assuming that the disk drives are
> big enough to hold it. Are you really doing anything that requires a 2 GB
> file? Can MasterCam actually handle such a large file?
>
> Jon