Slack Install

["Pete Cook" <pete.cook-at-alltracorp.com>]

5Brian -

Slack install seems to be working just fine on my machine at home -
integrated motherboard and everything else SiS chipsets. (I have heard that
this is a bad type of board to use...) I am using fvwm95 for my desktop at
present - have to learn to set it up now...

Tried copying from that computer to my Dell laptop at work (6 months old )
and reconfigured X but it kept giving me the message that it couldn't open
the lock file. Reinstalled Slack and all the packages I thought I needed and
then installed your EMC tarballs - It worked - until I tried to exit X - the
computer locked up and the screen slowly goes to white...

I am going to try copying it to my kids computer at home (networked) and see
how it behaves.

Several Questions -
Which ???.run do I need to work with steppers?
Has EMC been written so that the actual output code can be written in an
installable module?
    what I am thinking of is this - can I install EMC and then just change a
single module at run time to run with servo or stepper without having to
recompile the whole of EMC? This would make it easy and faster to work with
different hardware.
Pete