Re: Comments in EMC

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Hugh

-----snip from Kramer rs274
3.3.4 Comments and Messages 

 Printable characters and white space inside parentheses is a comment. A left 
parenthesis always starts a comment. The comment ends at the first right 
parenthesis found thereafter. Once a left parenthesis is placed on a line, a 
matching right parenthesis must appear before the end of the line. Comments 
may not be nested; it is an error if a left parenthesis is found after the 
start of a comment and before the end of the comment. Here is an example of a 
line containing a comment: "G80 M5 (stop motion)". Comments do not cause a 
machining center to do anything. 

 A comment contains a message if "MSG," appears after the left parenthesis 
and before any other printing characters. Variants of "MSG," which include 
white space and lower case characters are allowed. The rest of the characters 
before the right parenthesis are considered to be a message. Messages should 
be displayed on the message display device. Comments not containing messages 
need not be displayed there. 

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Ray

BTW -- I wrote your name on the bsmt wall with a sharpie, right under LyX.


On Thursday 30 May 2002 18:47, you wrote:
> Crew:
>
> Is there a way to put comments in a G-code file which EMC will ingore? I've
> looked on and off for this for some time but have not found a way.
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. Upon the decision here to use Lyx I downloaded it. Looks like a very
> nice tool. Thanks for the lead. :-)