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from the LinuxPLC department...

Good news for the HMI_GTK module...

Originally posted by Juan Carlos Orozco on 31 January, 2002 - 10:33 am

Finally the uncomfortable bug that did not keep the scaled property for the GnomePixmap buffer was corrected in a new Glade release (0.6.3) it can be downloaded...

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By Curt Wuollet on 31 January, 2002 - 10:39 am -

That's great Juan! The power of OSS in action. Regards cww ...

By Mario de Sousa on 31 January, 2002 - 10:38 am -

Juan Carlos Orozco wrote: > > Although I made a patch available for glade 0.6.2 earlier,...

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from the Automation List department...

linux project

Originally posted by Binoy Ketan Dash on 29 January, 2002 - 2:27 pm

Whatever value I give to USLEEP in my program it exceeds by 10msec. And also I am not able to get time period less than 10msec...

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By Mario de Sousa on 29 January, 2002 - 2:29 pm -

I assume you are using Linux? Linux by default has a 10 ms timer resolution, so you cannot get...

By Peter Wurmsdobler on 29 January, 2002 - 2:28 pm -

Hi, > 10msec.And also I am not able to get time period less than 10msec.< The time...

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from the Automation List department...

Linux In Controls

Originally posted by Rokicki, Andrew on 16 January, 2002 - 10:36 am

We are a company that uses Linux with great success (20 machines +)...

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By Karami on 24 January, 2002 - 12:34 pm -

Since Iran is under embargo for windows based systems, some company tend to use LINUX based system....

By Manoj Tandon on 19 January, 2002 - 11:25 am -

I will be interested to follow some of the good things you have done. Please send me the details...

By PP Muthu on 17 January, 2002 - 10:29 am -

Please send more details about the Configuration and other details of the Control System including...

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from the Automation List department...

"New" modbus master/rtu module

Originally posted by Mario de Sousa on 14 December, 2001 - 10:11 am

I have finally brought Phil's modbus module to work with the new generic io library. It is in the cvs now. ...

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By Enrique on 22 January, 2002 - 1:12 pm -

hi, I do not know how to publish a doubt about modbus in this forum. Perhaps you know the solution...

By Harvey Babb on 9 January, 2002 - 11:00 am -

I'd like to help out if possible. I'm not much on Linux, but I do have access to a fair number of...

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from the Automation List department...

CNC, RTLinux and PLC

Originally posted by Peter Wurmsdobler on 22 January, 2002 - 9:53 am

Stephan, you may want to take a look at a paper by Yvonne Wagner from EMCO Mair GesmbH ...

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By Stephan Brauss on 22 January, 2002 - 9:55 am -

Hello Peter, thank you for the link, I will take a look at it. Stephan ...

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from the Automation List department...

Another Interesting Hardware Platform

Originally posted by Curt Wuollet on 14 January, 2002 - 10:37 am

We may not have to build our own hardware platform. Several likely homes are showing up. Sixnet has one. Here's another one...

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By Stephan Brauss on 22 January, 2002 - 9:52 am -

Hello Curt, > welcome to use our PLC stuff when it's ready. What sort of I/O do > you...

By Curt Wuollet on 22 January, 2002 - 9:51 am -

Hi Stephan I for one, am very interested in your Linux CNC. And you are certainly welcome to use...

By Stephan Brauss on 18 January, 2002 - 3:01 pm -

Hello! > We may not have to build our own hardware platform. Several likely > homes are...

By Robert Schwebel on 16 January, 2002 - 10:34 am -

Hi, [please, people, use proper quoting for your posts. It makes it very difficult to read if you...

By Curt Wuollet on 16 January, 2002 - 10:33 am -

Yes I noted that after I got all excited. I have asked the gentleman who posted about them on the...

By Rufus VS on 16 January, 2002 - 10:32 am -

This is what they say about the I8000: Simple to Program The CPU modules of 8000 family is a AMD...

By Jerry Waugh on 14 January, 2002 - 1:57 pm -

I think it has an AMD 80188, 40M Hz processor Do you have a 16 bit Linux ;-) Gerald ...

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from the Automation List department...

PLC code generator

Originally posted by Mohammed Rahman Aerotech Inc on 22 January, 2002 - 9:43 am

Need soft PLC code generator (ladder logic, structured text, flow chart etc) for PC and interpreter written in C.

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By Jiri Baum on 22 January, 2002 - 9:49 am -

Mohammed Rahman: > I looked at the code once. Arent they written using some specific >...

By Mohammed Rahman on 22 January, 2002 - 9:48 am -

I looked at the code once. Arent they written using some specific graphics Libraries supported...

By Jiri Baum on 22 January, 2002 - 9:46 am -

Mohammed Rahman: > Need soft PLC code generator (ladder logic, structured text, flow > chart...

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from the Automation List department...

Have you seen this article

Originally posted by David Nimmons on 4 January, 2002 - 12:54 pm

Interesting article:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl? sid=02/01/02/2058241&mode=thread

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By Curt Wuollet on 4 January, 2002 - 1:56 pm -

Thanks Dave! I hope you don't mind that I posted that on the automation list. It ties in perfectly...

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from the Automation List department...

XP and Tests, tests, tests (WAS: Tests, tests, tests)

Originally posted by Jeff Dean on 12 October, 2001 - 12:22 pm

Peter said:
>>I must admit, I'm curently affascinated by XP programming (not M$, but the programming paradigm). ... <<
I was quite excited when I read the initial reviews of books about eXtreme Programming. ...

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By Anonymous on 31 December, 2001 - 9:45 am -

Are you kidding XP really has soo many flaws in its software it spins my head there never even...

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Something different

Originally posted by Ron Gage on 12 April, 2000 - 9:15 am

On a more serious note. After having spent the past few months within the General Motors Powertrain Group here is lovely, rusting Michigan, I have come to the conclusion that I really don't want to be here (GMPTG) anymore. ...

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By KK on 20 December, 2001 - 11:54 am -

Hi Ron, Bill, I am looking for a PC-based control solution for small individual platforms. Unlike...

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from the Automation List department...

Progress on autostuff

Originally posted by hopfgartner on 11 December, 2001 - 3:47 pm

It moves, even if it moves slowly...

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By Mario de Sousa on 14 December, 2001 - 10:09 am -

Peter Hopfgartner wrote: > > Let me know about any problem you have. I wrote down some items...

By Peter Hopfgartner on 14 December, 2001 - 9:58 am -

I checked in what I have so far. I will look for the TCL stuff in the next days (thank you, Mario,...

By Mario de Sousa on 13 December, 2001 - 11:46 am -

> It moves, even if it moves slowly. > (...) Well, I guess I could say the same about the...

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RTI: patents on NDDS/RTPS?

Originally posted by Harald Albrecht on 10 July, 2001 - 11:25 am

Having visited a workshop on "Ethernet and TCP/IP in Industrial Automation" a simple question popped up during questionaire time:

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By Robert Schwebel on 4 December, 2001 - 11:31 am -

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Harald Albrecht wrote: > However, as far as I can tell, no one so far took a...

By Curt Wuollet on 4 December, 2001 - 11:30 am -

Thank you Harald, That's one of the things that bothers me. Broadcast seems like a strange way to...

By Harald Albrecht on 4 December, 2001 - 11:29 am -

Curt Wuollet wrote: > Hi Harald. > > This one kinda snuck up on me. I'm still trying to...

By Robert Schwebel on 4 December, 2001 - 11:27 am -

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Harald Albrecht wrote: > Not quite. At least one company, which also happens...

By Harald Albrecht on 4 December, 2001 - 11:25 am -

Robert Schwebel wrote: > I've talked to > several people from companies engaged in IDA and...

By Curt Wuollet on 4 December, 2001 - 11:24 am -

Thanks Robert That does help bring it into perspective. It still seems best suited for one to many...

By Robert Schwebel on 4 December, 2001 - 11:22 am -

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Harald Albrecht wrote: > I talked to one of RTI's representatives during a...

By Curt Wuollet on 4 December, 2001 - 11:20 am -

Hi Harald. This one kinda snuck up on me. I'm still trying to figure out what all the excitement...

By Curt Wuollet on 4 December, 2001 - 11:19 am -

Hi Robert Interesting stuff, I was digging through the sites to figure out how it all goes...

By Harald Albrecht on 4 December, 2001 - 11:18 am -

Robert Schwebel wrote: > I've directly asked for their strategy regarding the IETF >...

By Robert Schwebel on 4 December, 2001 - 11:16 am -

Hi Harald and list, On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Harald Albrecht wrote: > Does anybody know whether...

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from the Automation List department...

auto tools

Originally posted by Mario de Sousa on 16 November, 2001 - 3:42 pm

I have just tried out the auto tools, and they don't seem to work....

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By Peter Hopfgartner on 4 December, 2001 - 11:12 am -

Ok, I will put it on top of my todo list and look for it during the weekend. Thank you for the...

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from the Automation List department...

mat-weekly/lib/util/Makefile patch suggestion

Posted by Marc Bumble on 4 December, 2001 - 11:10 am

Per the instructions in the README file from the mat-weekly tarball readme, I am enclosing the patch file found attached below ...

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