Re: Backfire

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Arne

I'll mix my comments into a snipped version of your post.

>   If any have some short guidelines on what I should do to download it and
>use it without a recompilation of EMC, it would be great. You can get it
at the site below.

ftp://isdftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/emc/emcsoft/linux_2_0_36/

I've been a little like Jon E in this regard.  "If it works, I hardly have
the time to mess with it."  But the tkemc HMI is worth the upgrade.  

My approach is to copy all of my stuff (.ini's .run's and my versions of
the Tk and Xemc out of emc and into my own file in the nist directory.  I
move any file that I've touched cause I got burned a while back and lost
some stuff.

When I've got my stuff safe, I cd to nist and ./clean.  Everything above
(below) nist  goes away.

Place the new .tar file in nist or wherever.  If you need to cat one file
from two floppy downloads, my description of how is on the bottom of the
ftp page.  Untar the file and ./install emc.  Go get a cup/glass/mug/stein
of whatever works for you and when you come back EMC will be there.  

Now for the hard part.  Copy your stuff back out of your directory and put
it where it was in the old release.  Things have been and are being added
to the .ini file all the time.  My preference here is to start with the new
files because they are very different.  Copy generic.run and generic.ini to
whatever filename you want to use and set them to the values that you used
in your old run and ini files. 

I use vim to do this because it allows me to open two files and show them
both.  Just change the settings in the new to the settings that you had in
the old.  Any items that are not in your old file leave alone for now.
(Jon E said something recently about differences in the definitions of
0/1's in some sections)  You may have to play with these. 

That's it.

>This could just be another color on the pixels on
>the screen. ( I have had this thought all along, - so it felt like a kind
>of "backfire" - but as Ian, - I do have some fire proof underwear too :)

I like the idea of colors for some of the stuff. (coolant on, read ahead)

My tickle sites include:

http://www.beedub.com/book/2nd/tclintro.doc.html

Welch's first book is there someplace also.  And some critical chapters in
the third and there also.

http://www.scriptics.com/resource/doc/

ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/doc/tclarch.txt

http://www.sco.com/Technology/tcl/Tcl.html

I didn't check these to make sure they are alive.

The manual pages are also helpful here.  Many of the mann pages are tcl/tk
descriptions.

Ray