Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Which version of EMC?

[Dan Falck <dfalck-at-sprynet.com>]

I set the period - lower- .00001 and crashed the whole thing.   Earlier,
when I set it to .000004 (added one more zero) I got some input/output
errors- didn't copy them because of the crash.  Very strange.  
.00004 gives me one "emcsh.cc 321..." error
.00002 gives me about a dozen of them
.000004 gives input/output errors on minimill.task (I think)
.00001 crashes X

I would like to get back to Tkemc, because it's easy to modify, but might
have to stick to Xemc for  awhile.

Thanks,
Dan 

At 01:51 PM 4/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Dan Falck wrote:
>> 
>> Tim,
>> Ok, I set up:
>> 
>> 1.  freqmod.o in emc.ini
>> 2. uncommented "period" again and set it to an unrealistically large number
>> ie  1.00004
>> 3.  started it up and got this:
>> 
>>    emcsh.cc 321 emcStatus buffer not available  (this came up 10 times)
>> 
>> then:
>> 
>> emcsh.cc 3794   can't establish communication with emc
>> 
>> Could my directory structure have any effect on it?  This program is under
>> /usr/local/emc15Mar/emc
>> since I have about 3 different versions going on this computer.
>> 
>> I also tried increasing cycle time wherever I found it and it didn't
help any.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>> 
>Dan
>
>For what it's worth, I thought I couldn't run TkEmc because my computer
>was too slow. It ran, but the mouse was real jerky, and events happened
>seconds after I clicked the buttons. XEmc ran great but it's kind of
>clumsy to use compared to TkEmc.
>
>Anyway after reading your post, I went and changed my period from
>.000016
>to .001 and changed to TkEmc. That would crash X completely. Required me 
>to "startx" again. Changed period to .0001 and everything runs great.
>
>I also get the "emcsh.cc 321 emcStatus buffer not available" message
>one time every time at start up
>
>I am running  32 meg ram on a P-166 overclocked to 200Mhz.
>
>Bill
>