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Hi Mario,
My name is Vic Ellescas, control engineer for the Wind Tunnels here at NASA Ames Res. Center in Mountain View Ca. I've been reading this list for
quite awhile now and it's time to lend you guys a hand in developing the LPLC. Please include me in the documentation and configuration. I'm not
a very good C programmer, but have good background on it, (I'm mostly stuck with Visual Basic through Wonderware and GE PLC's). So What Can I do to help?
Regards,
Vic Ellescas
Sverdrup Technology
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field CA.

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Vic Ellescas wrote:

> Hi Mario,
> My name is Vic Ellescas, control engineer for the Wind Tunnels here at
> NASA Ames Res. Center in Mountain View Ca. I've been reading this list for
> quite awhile now and it's time to lend you guys a hand in developing the
> LPLC. Please include me in the documentation and configuration. I'm not
> a very good C programmer, but have good background on it, (I'm mostly
> stuck with Visual Basic through Wonderware and GE PLC's). So What Can I do
> help?



Hi Vic,

Welcome on board!!

Sorry for the delay in replying. I went on hollidays on the 15th Aug, and only got back yesterday. A nice long holliday... ;-)

Anyway, there is lot's of documentation to write.

I have just been glancing though the user manual, and I believe that what we need most is some explanation of how to configure the core of
the PLC itself, i.e. the general accepted syntax of the linuxplc.conf file, how to configure plc points (and what they are), how to configure
synchronisation between modules, etc...

I believe this should come under another top level heading of "PLC Core", or something similar.

I'm sure Jiri will also have some ideas on how to structure the document.

Once we have this covered, you can then move on to the IO modules...



Thanks for your help!!!



Cheers,

Mario.


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Vic Ellescas:
> > So What Can I do help?

Mario:
> Sorry for the delay in replying. I went on hollidays on the 15th Aug, and
> only got back yesterday. A nice long holliday... ;-)

Oops, sorry about that - I should have replied, too.

> Anyway, there is lot's of documentation to write.

Agreed - though if you prefer programming, there's a lot of that, too.

Probably the best way to start would be to read through the manual, and anything you don't understand - ask us, we'll need to add it in. If some section of the manual could be written clearer, again, let us know and we'll change it.


Another document that might serve as an intro is the recent Embedded Linux Journal article, but we'd want the manual to cover everything, so if you could read the manual first and comment on it, that would be good...

http://mat.sf.net/lplc-article.txt

> I believe this should come under another top level heading of "PLC Core",
> or something similar.

Sounds good.

Note on the manual: the forward and backward links are auto-generated; just add the new page to the table of contents (doc/manual/index.html) in the right spot and run the autolink script (or e-mail me and I can run it).

Jiri
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