error starting emcbin



I am having trouble getting the latest emcbin release running and need some
help.  Here is a description of my setup, with the error message output to
follow:

Computer:  compaq with AMD K6-400 128 megs of ram
OS:  Mandrake 7.0 with RTlinux2.2 which seems to be running fine (it does
the Frank Zappa test ok)
Emc release:  Latest emcbin for 2.2.14
path:  loaded emcbin*.gz into /usr/local/nist and untarred it and got the
usual emc directory under it.

I copied generic.run as emc.run and did a chmod 755 emc.run
Altered generic.ini as such:
            changed memory to 00x7H to reflect 128 megs of ram minus the 1
meg needed for RTlinux
            commented out PERIOD  ";PERIOD" , since it's using steppermod.o
Saved generic.ini as emc.ini and then did a chmod 755 emc.ini (probably
didn't need to since it's an ini file)

after trying to run emc  "./emc.run"  I got this message:

[root-at-localhost emc]# ./emc.run
Current platform is linux_2_2_14
Current real-time platform is rtlinux_2_2
inivar = plat/linux_2_2_14/bin/inivar
INIFILE = emc.ini
starting emc...
starting EMC MOTION PROGRAM -- steppermod.o...done
starting EMC IO PROGRAM --  bridgeportio...done
cms_cfg.cc 625: cms_config: can't open 'emc.nml'. Error = 2 --
 No such file or directory

**********************************************************
* Current Directory = /usr/local/nist/emc
* -at-(#) RCS_LIBRARY_VERSION: 4.30 Compiled on  Aug 10 2000 at 1

**********************************************************
* BufferName = emcError
* ProcessName = tool
* Config File = emc.nml
* error_type = 3 (NML_INVALID_CONFIGURATION)
************************************************************

nml_mod.cc 447: Error Log channel is invalid.
rcs_exit.cc 125:
 Errors Reported!!!
 Press ^C to exit.
starting EMC TASK PROGRAM -- bridgeporttask...done
running EMC DISPLAY PROGRAM -- xemc...
emctaskmain.cc 2046: can't get emcCommand buffer
xemc.cc 5422: can't establish communication with emc
./emc.run: line 604:  5966 Segmentation fault      (core dumped)
plat/$emctask_plat/bin/$emctask -ini $INIFILE
[root-at-localhost emc]#



......so, where do I find emc.nml for this binary release.  Or what else did
I do wrong?

Thanks,
Dan




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