On Tuesday 23 April 2013 10:35:41 John Thornton did opine: > At one time there were 4 manuals and 2 of them contained almost the same > content. After years of work I put the stuff needed for a newbee to get > started into the Getting Started Manual pdf and the stuff needed to USE > LinuxCNC in the User Manual pdf and the stuff needed to integrate > LinuxCNC into the Integrators Manual pdf that left the HAL tutorial > which fluctuated a bit but is/was for using HAL standalone and last but > not least the developer information which is in the Developer Manual. > > And then there is the secret man pages that only Linux Guru's know about > and thanks to Jeff's magic are included in the HTML documents. > > On the bright side the entire manual is in HTML from start to finish > including the secret man pages this way you get the manual any way you > want. > > What did I miss? > > John
IMO not much John, Thanks. I've been using FF to check things in the newest html as I work, but whats missing is stuff I might be doing that isn't covered so I've invented the lugs nuts I need. No big deal, we all have to make those parts. :) There is some ambiguity in language, but that seems unavoidable when trying to be concise, and a few re-reads generally, or a question on IRC, will clear it up for me. The biggest confusion to me yet is that even though the machine is in absolute movement mode, G2/3 moves are still made relative to where it starts from, and that is a translation in concept that I have a hard time wrapping this aged brain around. It would help me if there were some examples of the variable pre use calculations needed to properly arrive at the correct i/j/k values needed to go from y=3.111 to y=5.09 with x fixed at 4.33 for a 180 rounded curve on the end of something. I fought with that for several days while trying to do that cocking handle in brass 2 weeks back. 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> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> You're not an alcoholic unless you go to the meetings. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users