You can also do that using emcrsh it's a telnet like interface and you can also connect using NML directly to emc2 from a windows machine (granted it involves writing and compiling some software ;)
Regards, Alex -------------------------------------------------- From: "Flying Electron" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:22 AM To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Building and using emcsh > Thanks! > > That totally worked on my 2.4.0 pre system. Tested it by getting estop > to turn on and off from an interactive tclsh. I'm planning on piping > the input and output of the tclsh through a serial port connected to a > windows machine so the windows machine can issue MDI commands to the > linux EMC box. > > > > Jeff Epler wrote: >> emcsh is no longer built. The emc-specific extensions to tcl are now in >> the loadable library emc.so. >> >> Instead, use regular tclsh or wish, and near the top >> # Load the emc.tcl file, which defines variables for various useful >> paths >> source [file join [file dirname [info script]] emc.tcl] >> eval emc_init $argv >> (the above snipped from tcl/tkemc.tcl) >> >> The way this 'source' line finds the location of emc.tcl is appropriate >> for run-in-place systems where the script is in bin/ or scripts/; or for >> run-installed systems where the script is in $prefix/bin/. If your >> setup is different, then you may need to do something else. >> >> Jeff >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community >> Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support >> A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and >> easy >> Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and > easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.722 / Virus Database: 270.14.123/2594 - Release Date: > 12/30/09 09:27:00 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
