Re: [Emc-users] LINUX OS question

2008-11-03 Thread John Thornton
In the Getting Started Guide there is a short section on Linux FAQ http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/EMC2_Getting_Started.pdf John On 2 Nov 2008 at 18:34, John Domville wrote: So is there any way to do this under LINUX? -

[Emc-users] LINUX OS question

2008-11-02 Thread John Domville
Being new to LINUX I have only begun to understand my way around this operating system. Most of what I know about LINUX was forced on me when I bought a SHERLINE mill and installed Ubuntu for the first time. Anyway, The question I have is how can I print out the contents of a sub-directory to a

Re: [Emc-users] LINUX OS question

2008-11-02 Thread John Kasunich
John Domville wrote: Being new to LINUX I have only begun to understand my way around this operating system. Most of what I know about LINUX was forced on me when I bought a SHERLINE mill and installed Ubuntu for the first time. Anyway, The question I have is how can I print out the contents

Re: [Emc-users] LINUX OS question

2008-11-02 Thread Karl Schmidt
John Domville wrote: Being new to LINUX I have only begun to understand my way around this operating system. Most of what I know about LINUX was forced on me when I bought a SHERLINE mill and installed Ubuntu for the first time. Anyway, The question I have is how can I print out the contents

Re: [Emc-users] LINUX OS question

2008-11-02 Thread John Kasunich
Karl Schmidt wrote: This is probably not the appropriate mailing list for general Linux questions - there are many other lists and books that cover this. If you just want enough info to cover most command line operations - there is 'Unix for Dummies' that will get you a fast start on

Re: [Emc-users] LINUX OS question

2008-11-02 Thread Jeff Epler
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 06:34:01PM -0500, John Domville wrote: In the pre-windows, DOS days it was possible to type: DIR/W LPT1 By default, installing emc takes away all parallel-port devices from regular linux programs. This reduces the kinds of problems where a program tries to probe an