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

["Steve Carlisle" <quatsein-at-island.net>]

Scott, after having used EMC and the related software for 
over a year, I have come to the conclusion that there are
very few of us that want to become Linux/EMC guru's. The
main reason of the real-time operation is why linux was
chosen, and windows cannot supply that. You will notice
that any of the Windows motion control software has the
advice of running only that program. I sure would not want
windows to start house cleaning in the middle of my 2 hour
project!

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 2:53 PM



-----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?


>
>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.
>>
>>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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