EMC minimill option/Parallel port issues

Matt,Darrell

Ah that is why. I lost my hard drive and rebuilt with a newer
EMC. My .ini file was lost with the drive so I could not remember what I did.
I missed that..But I needed to get the parallel card in anyway.

Is there a utility people use in linux to scan the port bit input bit values
and display them or manually set the outputs for debug ( not while emc is running)?
I need one!!!

BTW Xemc,Yemc do not give you an error message when you try to turn ESTOP OFF
and there is a limit switch or other fault. It should tell you why it cannot
turn estop off. Say " Xlimit active..Cannot leave Estop state" Is the info
avalible to the YEMC interface to do this?

How about a "stepperdemo.ini" for a system with nothing connected? This would
allow a demo to run out of the chute so newbees can get it going? I volunteer
to write it along with a description.... If I do, Will Fred put it in the future
distibutions?



dave