Re: EMC problems

[Drew Rogge <drew-at-pixar.com>]

Glad I could contribute. One of these days I'm probably going
to be asking tons of questions.

Ray wrote:
> 
> Wow Drew!  That is awesome.  One more verification that you are never to
> old to learn.
> 
> Oh hey!  I made a mistake on my directions.  You will need to click
> /usr/local/emc.
> 
> Ray
> 
> On Friday 30 November 2001 11:06 am, Drew wrote:
> > Ray and Fred Z,
> >
> > If Fred manages to get into a shell then he can issue the command
> > "script" (without quotes) and all input and output in the shell's window
> > will be saved in a file named "typescript" (again without the quotes).
> > After he's done running EMC he can enter the command "exit" and a
> > history of the complete session should be in typescript. Emailing
> > the complete file may be better than trying to paste pieces of it
> > together.
> >
> > Drew
> >
> > Ray wrote:
> > > Fred Z
> > >
> > > We have found a couple downloads where the copy was not the same as
> > > the ftp site file.  Henkka at yty.net has a brief description of a
> > > program called checksum and a good checksum value to test your
> > > download against. I really think that this is an essential task for a
> > > file this big.
> > >
> > > (comments in)
> > >
> > > On Friday 30 November 2001 02:24 am, Fred Z wrote:
> > > > Thank you very much for that information, I will try that on monday
> > > > when I return to the site.
> > > >
> > > > I should state at this point that I am extremely greatfull to those
> > > > who have contributed there suggestions to my problems, they have all
> > > > helped in one way or another.
> > >
> > > This help is why we hang around here.  We need it also!
> > >
> > > > Can I assume from your statement that when I run the EMC_Run from
> > > > the icon, it uses the EMC.INI, and when I run the EMC_Generic from
> > > > the icon, it uses the GENERIC.INI files and so on ???
> > >
> > > Yep!  Usually but read on.
> > >
> > > > Being involved with the virus(Windows), I tend to just use icons and
> > > > not command lines.
> > >
> > > Point and click is a common affliction.  Command lines do not take
> > > much more effort at the level we need you to use them.
> > >
> > > Click on the little house icon on the bottom bar or panel.  It will
> > > bring up an instance of kfm, the file manager.  I assume that you are
> > > running as root and you will be in the /root directory.   You can
> > > always see where you are in the file window.  Press the up arrow near
> > > the top bar of kfm and it will move you to /.  Now click on the usr
> > > directory icon then the emc directory icon.  Now you will display the
> > > correct directory for running the emc. It should show you a bunch of
> > > files like TkEemc and such. Hey, that's not so different.
> > >
> > > Clicking on a text based file icon should show its contents in a
> > > window. Right clicking on a terminal or executable file and selecting
> > > open with should let you look at those as well.  Sometimes clicking on
> > > an unknown file type will get you an open with window much like you
> > > see in MS windows.  At that point you can always type kwrite and it
> > > will show you the file, even if it is a binary.
> > >
> > > A file named *.run, where the star has the usual definition of any or
> > > all, is a start the emc file.  It one of these files about line 27
> > > should be a variable which points that run file at an .ini file.  It
> > > will say something like
> > >
> > > INIFILE=ppmc.ini
> > >
> > > except the file pointed to is the name of your ini file.  Perhaps it
> > > will be emc.ini.  This information is critical because that is the
> > > specific .ini file that you will need to edit to work with that .run
> > > file.  I've made this mistake before, changing one ini while running
> > > another.  I kept wondering why my changes weren't doing anything.
> > >
> > > Now let's take one more little step away from the icons to running
> > > from a terminal because that way you can view the startup feedback and
> > > some of the run stuff.  The Kfm window that you got to this directory
> > > with needs to have the focus.  Kfm is the file browser and focus means
> > > that the top line is a different color than the background.  (Click on
> > > the top line to change focus to that window)  Now press and hold
> > > <control> and press t on the keyboard.  This opens a new terminal so
> > > that you can enter text commands.  This keystroke, <control>t , opens
> > > that terminal in the directory shown in the kfm window.  This means
> > > that you should be ready to go to work entering text.
> > >
> > > In the terminal window you will see something like
> > >
> > > [ray-at-localhost emc]$
> > >
> > > The $ means that it is ready to accept a command.  the emc] just
> > > before it is the name of the directory the terminal is working in.
> > > Type in ./emc.run (dot slash) and it should immediately say something
> > > like file not found.  This is a good thing if it goes on with other
> > > stuff. It is this other stuff that will allow you to begin to debug
> > > your setup.
> > >
> > > With the mouse, you can click and drag across the lines of the
> > > terminal window to highlight what you want.  But you can't press
> > > <control>c to capture them.  Just leave them highlighted and start
> > > kwrite, advanced editor, or text editor from the k menu in the bottom
> > > left corner and select copy from the menu or press <control>v in the
> > > editor and you should have a copy of the highlighted text from the
> > > terminal.  Copy that into your favorite email program and we can
> > > comment on what we see there.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > Ray

-- 
Drew Rogge
drew-at-pixar.com