Re: EMC Parallel port config, please help

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Jon Elson <elson@p...> wrote:

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>
> Lance Hopper wrote:
>
> >Hey,
> > I understand what you are saying, but I can't believe it. The EMC
> >is very configurable and customizable. I can't believe it doensn't
> >let you reconfigure the pinout of the parallel port.
> >
> As it is right now, is doesn not let you change the pin assignments
> for step and direction signals. The auxilliary stuff is configurable.
> Somebody just posted a message within the last 3 days about making
> a patch to change the pinout.
>
> Jon

Thanks for the replies Jon and Peter.
I'm running the BDI TNG (RH7.2 based). I hope the patch works on
the EMC version I'm running, as it's the only one I had any luck with.

I'm curios about the "digital out bits" section of the .ini. I'm
not understanding how the bit number relates to what I'm calling the
pin number. Is bit '0' pin 1 or something?
Also, I've got an 'init' output (pin 16) that needs to be mapped to
machine on/off button in EMC. I don't see any definition for it in the
.ini, or in the handbooks' layout of the default pin configuration
and what each pin is mapped to. To what pin do you wire "machine on/off"
to? It seems that there are only settings for spindle and coolant
outputs in the .ini.

Thanks for any help.