Another gotcha with this, upper and lowercase doesn't seem to work. Keep everything lowercase with both filename and subname.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:16 PM, gene heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, January 30, 2012 11:40:25 AM John Thornton did opine: > > > If your using 2.4 > > > > http://linuxcnc.org/docview/html/gcode_main.html#r3_7 > > > > if your using 2.5 > > > > http://linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/gcode/o-code.html#_calling_files > > > > http://linuxcnc.org/docview/2.5/html/config/ini_config.html#_rs274ngc_se > > ction_a_id_sub_rs274ngc_section_a > > > > John > > I'm using linuxcnc-2.6.0-pre2442 IIRC. I saw it was available last night > but the upgrade & renaming wasn't quite smooth, probably my fault though. > There were at least 3 shells sitting there, cd'd into ~/gene/emc2 or > deeper, so the install scripts can't rename a dir that's in use and > obviously can't edit every .ini file to change the PROGRAM_PATH. That did > create a minor panic when I thought all my configs and code were wiped out. > Common sense fixable though so no big deal as I had it all running again in > 20 minutes. > > And in the wee hours of the morning last night I finally did grok that > while it was being referred to as a 'o<name> call', and had to have that > same construction (o<name> sub/endsub) internally, and while the error > messages didn't mention it, the file HAD to be in the PROGRAM_PATH > directory (that was in the wiki) AND named "name.ngc". > > No thanks to the wiki for pointing that automatic (add an .ngc to the name) > renaming out. That would have saved me about 10 hours of hair pulling > trying to make sense of the error messages. :( Only deduced by staring at > the examples for hours, literally checking each character against what I > had. In the end, I must be going blind or I would have seen that quicker > than I did. > > I have a bit more editing to apply to the drill files yet, it just occurred > to me that I'll have to restore the X offset too in the bot.drill because > I'm G92.1-ing everything back to the default before making the tool change > move but s/b able to actually carve a board later today if it warms up > enough. So far it hasn't. Exactly freezing ATM. Global warming, 20 years > ago it would have been only 15 degrees at noon. > > But progress is being made, one small step at a time. This cat will get > skint, I promise after the headache I've been to this list over it. Many > Thanks to all who have helped. > > Cheers, Gene > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> > The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue, a custom > whereof the memory of man runneth not howsomever to the contrary, nohow. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
