Re: Linux vs. DOS

Tim I have bought some of those rs232 breakout boxes and reconfigured the
pins for various customers. It will alow you to keep your current parallel
port cable and save you from fighting the process of making up a new cable.
I think you can buy them at radio shack for $8-9 or at other places for
$4-5.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Goldstein <timg@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Date: Monday, May 31, 1999 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Linux vs. DOS

>From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>
>>
>> From: "Matt Shaver" <mshaver@...>
>> Gee, I didn't know you had hardware. I thought you were just checking out
>> the GUI. This is great!
>>
>
>I am running a Shoptask machine with some Superior 550 in/oz bi-polar
>steppers on each axis. I use one of Dan Mauch's 5 amp controllers and power
>the CNC stuff from a 24 VDC 20 amp surplus power supply. I have been

running

>it from DeskNC DOS version. I also have DeskNC Win95 , DanCAD, and Stepster
>all set up on the system just to see what I like. Of the group of software
>products DeskNC DOS seems to be the most stable.
>
>I became interested in a program that would provide G42 offset support as
>the Vector (the CAD/CAM product I am using) is designed to output it's
>G-code using offsets. So, with all the software I currently have I must go
>in and manually draw offset paths and then remove the G42 and G40 command
>from the code. A big pain, but workable. I was considering MaxNC, but with
>all the talk about EMC on this list I though I would give it a try before
>shelling out some more $$$ for this hobby.
>
>> Sorry, my fault there I'm afraid.
>>
>
>Not a big deal. Without your help I still would have been mucking around
>trying to get the real time patch in place.
>
>>
>> Well, there are of course two approaches to this. One of them involves a
>> soldering iron... I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination,
>> and I don't think this is in the .ini file. Give me a little while to dig
>> through the EMC source directories here and I'll get back to you. I just
>> cooked some burgers on the grill, and I'm going to eat a few and think
>> about this. It's probably in some file called parport.h or stepper.c, or
>> something like that. I can imagine it involves some changes that we can

do

>> without involving the software folks such as just changing a few numbers.
>
>I would very much prefer if we can find a way to get it reconfigured in the
>software as all the other programs I have installed are configured for this
>particular setup. This particular configuration is what is specified for
>DanCAD which to my taste is better documented in how to interface the
>controller to the parallel port than any of the other software I have seen.
>
>
>> Amazin', ain't it.
>>
>
>I'll agree with that.
>
>Time for me to cook some burgers now. I'll check back to see if you found
>anything on setting up the parallel port.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tim
>[Denver, CO]
>
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