Re: EMC on a 386 and a remote TkEMC under Win98?

["Scott Stephens" <Scott2-at-Mediaone.net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Carlisle <quatsein-at-island.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2000 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: EMC on a 386 and a remote TkEMC under Win98?


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>I have not run the Tcl/EMC files on Windows, but I would think the Tcl/EMC
>code that is written for Linux should run under Tcl/Windows as the
>code should be portable.

Should be, maybe it is, I didn't find it to be.

> Pull the Tcl source from the EMC distribution
>and try it on your windows machine, the GUI should at least come up.

I did that, it didn't work. Tcl reported multiple errors as I ran the
Tkemc.tcl
I looked at the script and the first line is:

#!/bin/sh
# the next line restarts using autoemc \
exec /usr/local/nist/emc/plat/linux_2_0_36/bin/autoemc "$0" "$-at-"

So the Tkemc.tcl that comes with the EMC distribution is obviously for
linux. Which is why I've asked and tried to get the tkemc.exe referered to
at http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/emc/wintkemc.html
Learning Tcl in addition to setting up a linux box, configuring EMC and the
rest is just too much fun when I can run Kcam3 (from
http://hometown.aol.com/drigotti/HobbyCNC.htm ).

I hate being dependant on lame Micro$oft ware, but there aren't enough hours
in a day to learn 3 different languages.

Scott

>Steve
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>From: Scott Stephens <Scott2-at-mediaone.net>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
>Subject: Re: EMC on a 386 and a remote TkEMC under Win98?
>Date: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:13 AM
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Carlisle <quatsein-at-island.net>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
>Date: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:04 PM
>Subject: Re: EMC on a 386 and a remote TkEMC under Win98?
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>>
>>Scott, Tcl is available from the following site. IMHO you will need
>>the experience of having setup a working Linux/EMC before you
>>attempt to run EMC over a network.
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>>http://dev.scriptics.com/software/
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>I found that and installed it, no problem. The problem was building the
>TkEmc gui for linux in win98. Which I guess is what TkEmc.exe is about. I
>can't get that.
>
>>>>  Where do I get the Windows TkEmc.exe?
>>>>  The link at http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/emc/wintkemc.html is
>>broke,
>>>>  but may be working soon.
>>
>>>I don't think the link is broken. I tried it just a second ago and it
>>appeared
>>>to work.
>>>Under Netscape, I needed to hold the shift key down when I clicked  to
>>prevent
>>>he browser from trying to interpret the .exe as html. I am not sure if
>>there
>>>is a similiar problem/work around for internet explorer.
>>
>>Tried again, to no avail. Maybe someone could mail me it?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Scott Stephens
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