Re: Glass scales

[Dave Engvall <dengvall-at-charter.net>]

On 8/14/02 8:03 PM, "Jon Elson" <elson-at-pico-systems.com> wrote:

> 
> Dave Engvall wrote:
> 
>> I'm using an stg-I and patiently waiting for something to test.
>> If you have a tarball or whatever I might be able to download and compile.
>> As usual I'm a little short on resources. E-mail is on a Mac that can burn
>> CD's but I don't think I have cvs support. Can always download a tarball and
>> burn on CD then sneakernet to a real machine. (linux).
> 
> I think I can do better than that.  I should be able to just send you about 5
> files (in a tarball, that's fine) and it should run on most newer BDI
> installs.
> You'd need ppmc.run, ppmc.ini, the right ppmcmod.o,  ppmcio, ppmctask.
> I think that's it.  I'll have to check the run file to make sure I'm
> remembering
> all the files.  You should be able to just add these to any recent BDI and
> it should work.  I have added some diagnostics that write into the
> kernel log file /var/log/messages about finding the individual PPMC boards
> on the parallel port.  So, the program doesn't blindly run, it checks for the
> existance of all of the boards.  Do you have a digital I/O board?
> 
> Sneakernet is a REAL pain, especially with the unreliability of 3.5" floppies.
> You ought to get a twisted pair network going.  I have 8 nodes in my network
> now!
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
Tarball sound great. Sneakernet is indeed a pain but it works with CD's
better than floppies.
I do not have the dio board just the encoder and dac boards.

Indeed, I ought to get a network going. Got pretty burned out on a network
to remote boot an HP 9000 machine(running BSD) over the net. Haven't done
much since then. 
Some day.........

Dave