Re: [Emc-users] M101 M102 do not execute

[Ray H. <re...@up...>]

je...@un... wrote:

>I just tested emc1, branch cradek_stable, simulator, axis front-end.
>
>The supplied script "programs/M101" seemed to work just fine.  I tested
>it in this way:
>1. Start emc
>2. Press F1 F2 to turn machine on
>3. Press F5 for MDI
>4. type the MDI command "m101 p100 q100" and hit Enter.
>
>In the terminal where other messages from emc are displayed, this was
>printed:
>    M101 P100.000000 Q200.000000: put your code here
>
>I don't know about emc2, but it does appear to work properly in emc1.
>
>Jeff
>  
>
Hey thanks for testing Jeff and Tom.  It looks like these should do what 
a programmer might want.  What I'm more interested in is something along 
the lines of a HAL interface to the interpreter by using something like;

m110
which points to a bash script that executes
"bin/halcmd sets vacuum-pump 1"

Seems to me that this expands the range of possibilities by allowing for 
some machine level customization in gcode.  These probably will not work 
for timing critical tasks like laser on/off but for

Ray