[Emc-developers] rtai 3.9 out, no support for new linux kernels

2012-07-18 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Latest kernel supported is 2.6.38, no support for Precise's Linux 3.2. http://mail.rtai.org/pipermail/rtai/2012-July/025059.html -- Sebastian Kuzminsky -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cov

[Emc-developers] Some gentle chiding about the cd we use tto install 10.04-4 LTS from.

2012-07-18 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Kmail upchucked yesterday, from an inability to deal with mailfiles beyond 2Gb in size. During my recovery of all those emails after converting my inbox to a maildir format, I found the reason that kmail has been an utter dawg since I'd installed from that cd. So much of a dawg tha

Re: [Emc-developers] halcmd show

2012-07-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 July 2012 23:08, John Kasunich wrote: > As you have pointed out, HAL variables are rarely if ever used to > pack in a collection of bits - they are almost always used to store > a number. Currently there is a bad case of "it depends" Looking through the code for the lines which create u32

Re: [Emc-developers] halcmd show

2012-07-18 Thread John Kasunich
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012, at 08:23 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 18 July 2012 13:41, andy pugh wrote: > > Is there a good reason why halcmd show displays S32 and U32 pin / > > param values in Hex? It seems that such items will generally represent > > physical units so decimal might be more appropriate?

Re: [Emc-developers] halcmd show

2012-07-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 July 2012 13:41, andy pugh wrote: > Is there a good reason why halcmd show displays S32 and U32 pin / > param values in Hex? It seems that such items will generally represent > physical units so decimal might be more appropriate? > > I think halmeter shows both formats, and I can't remember

[Emc-developers] halcmd show

2012-07-18 Thread andy pugh
Is there a good reason why halcmd show displays S32 and U32 pin / param values in Hex? It seems that such items will generally represent physical units so decimal might be more appropriate? I think halmeter shows both formats, and I can't remember what Halshow does, but I think that is decimal. -