Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC in Portland

Hi Jon,

If you take just one more step and hook up a real network you will take out
one stage of software downloads (at least). Before I hooked mine up I had to
download to the Windoze98 machine (which is where I had my only modem) and
then transfer to CD and walk up 2 floors to post the CD in one of my Linux
machines. With the simple network I could access the net from the windoze
machine and save files directly to one of the Linux machines using 'Network
Neighbourhood' which is already a part of windoze. Now I have added in
WinProxy and re-configured the net a bit, I can access the web directly from
any of the machines on my network and save files to that or any other
machine in the house! Whilst I am still pretty new to this networking thing
myself and I'm still discovering new things about it, I would be happy to
try to help if you want to set one up. Other people on the list,
particularly Arne, and the local Linux user group gave me very valuable
advice in the early stages and so there is plenty of support available if
you want to take the first step.The networking equipment I am using was all
from boot sales or dumpsters and so the actual cost was practically zero
about 2 UKP actually) and it all works fine.
With a couple of linux machines on the network it is perfectly feasible to
drive EMC on one machine, say in the workshop, from another in a quiet warm
place! The only prerequisite seems to be that the two machines need to be
running the same release of linux - I don't know why as, in theory one is
only acting as a terminal for the other, but trying to run EMC on the RH5.2
machine from the Mandrake7 machine just doesn't work and I get errors saying
that 'steppermod.o' or 'freqmod.o' can't be run.
One other advantage has been a happy wife as we can run a 'countdown' quiz
programme across two machines - each person having their own machine and
personal screen display! I'm sure the ability to do things like this will
increase in the future.
I haven't found any way to run linux programs from the windoze machine yet -
presumably with some form of X-server program on the windoze machine it
would be possible as, in theory at least, UMSDOS should allow you to run
DOS-based programs on the linux machines - I just haven't tried these yet.

Ian

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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK

----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
I use a freeware FTP program on my windows 95 system to connect with
the Linux system, and push files over. I do this because the modem is
on the
Windows machine, so new software downloads go there first. Also, the
CAD/CAM
software is on the windows machine, so NC toolpath programs are created
there.