Re: Linux vs. DOS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Elson [mailto:jmelson@...]
> Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 12:19 AM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux vs. DOS
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> From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
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> Tim Goldstein wrote:
>
> > From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > Thank you for your instruction sheet on setting up the rt patch and
> > installing EMC. With your help I now seem to have rtlinux running.
> >
> > I seem to be having a problem with the EMC part though. I followed your
> > directions and when I execute run.64step378 I get a message "Permission
> > Denied".
>
> Right. You have to do a chmod o+x {filename} to set the file to be
> executable. If you've already done that, then you need to be root, or
> give root privledges to the kernel module that becomes the real-time
> component of EMC.
>
> > Also, if I try run.stepper I see on the command line emc start, but
> > then I get an error message that the stepper module file does not exist.
> > When I look under the plat directory I have the rtlinux,
> linux2.0.36, and if
> > I remember correctly the documentation directory, but they are
> all empty. Is
> > it possible that I got a bad .tgz file or are the files for these
> > directories in a separate download.
>
> As I understand the current distribution, the stepper code is only built
> if you do something in the makefile to enable the stepper version.
> This is temporary.
>
> Jon
>
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