Re: RS-274 spec

Fred Smith wrote:

>
> The reason that I mentioned the school was that even 10,000 miles away
> THEY
> have access to the documents & are not confined by a copyright law
> that
> discourages dissemination of vital manufacturing information. I wish
> it was
> on their web page, then I could get access to it any time I wanted
> too. As
> it is I'll have to pay tuition to become a student at a local
> university to
> be able to see the document maintained by a tax supported standards
> organization at a college library maintained primarily with tax
> dollars.

Well, my University library had access to it from another university
library, and I made a copy
under the "fair use" doctrine. I think any university library should be
able to find a copy not too
far away. But, in fact, the document is not a hell of a lot of good! I
just about never use it, and
don't really recommend going to a lot of trouble to get one.

Far more useful is ANY book on CNC programming or the programmer's guide
for any
recent CNC control.

Paying tuition to see the RS-274 spec would be about as unwise as buying
a car to see
how big the ashtrays are.

Jon