On Thursday 24 July 2014 16:03:48 Philipp Burch did opine And Gene did reply: > Hi Gene! > > On 24.07.2014 21:56, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... > > ================= > > Now, a posting tutorial: > > > > You confuse this old fart by persisting in using the > > [HOSTMOT2](BOARD) strings in your posted examples. To the hal > > interpretor those are completely bogus strings that you will never > > be able to make work, and LinuxCNC will not even load, exiting with > > that error left on the screen where you typed "linuxcnc -l" to start > > it. Its even nice enough to quote the errant line number in case > > you have not noticed. > > As far as I know, the [HOSTMOT2](BOARD) isn't wrong if the loaded ini > file contains a section named "HOSTMOT2" with an entry like > "BOARD=hm2_5i20". But I also think that it's not really a problem to > have those names hardcoded in the HAL, as a change in the board would > need messing around with the HAL wiring anyway.
While this is technically correct (and I obviously have not grokked that myself), we have not ever been made privy to his .ini file, so I would rather not play 20 questions trying to translate it. Now of coarse its me being picky Phillip, but I'd druther have known good data when trying to read a crystal ball this cloudy. :) > Cheers, > Philipp Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
