On Saturday 16 August 2014 11:50:56 Andy Pugh did opine And Gene did reply: > > On 16 Aug 2014, at 15:55, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I hadn't thought of that but did find the problem. Among the various > > hal modules, there is apparently no good practice document > > encouraging a uniform way to name pins, > > There is. It is widely ignored (and how would you normalize the names > without breaking every config?) > > http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal/canonical-devices.html
I just read thru that from every direction. Not one character was wasted to recommend a way to enumerate multiple inputs to differentiate the first from the last. No wonder we have such a mish-mash that cannot now be corrected without breaking every machine config we've ever built. Yeah, it could be fixed, but the screams of gored oxen will reverberate all thru the land. So we are doomed to deal with that legacy forever I'd imagine. Thanks Andy. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
