Ron,

I guess it has been longer than I thought. You were a strong
advocate of cncpor. It served me well for a number of years. I
meant "tool width compensation" in my question.

Once configured will it run off the same parallel port or do I have
to reconfigure everything.

Thanks again for your advise and insight.

Happey New Year.

Larry

--- In yeagerautomation@yahoogroups.com, Ron Kline <ronkline@...>
wrote:
>
> By compensation do you mean cost ?
> Unfortunately I believe they are about the same , I think I payed
$120
> for Mach 3 and I don't know what CNCpro is selling for now (I
bought
> mine about 6 years ago my serial # is below 70) .
> Mach has many more bells and whistles and is much more modern but
> requires a 1 gig or faster computer with Win XP .
> CNCpro will run on almost any computer you find at a garage sale or
by
> the street .
> I use mach on the big mill and 2 lathes and CNCpro on one lathe one
> surface grinder and several home made things like a wire cutter and
a
> very small metal shear I constructed , because it is good for very
basic
> machine control using some OLD IBM laptops I picked up for almost
nothing .
>
> --
> Ron Kline
>
> American Precision Ceramics .. (Industrial ceramics)
> Central Ky.
>
>
> larrysalamey wrote:
> >
> > Too bad about it, it had a lot of potential. Does Mach3 have too
> > width compensation? How much. Does anyone elso recommend anything
> > else? What have most of the users gone to?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > --- In yeagerautomation@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:yeagerautomation%40yahoogroups.com>, "Bob Muse" <mtebob1@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > It's been that way for a while now. Doug surfaced about a year
ago
> > with plans to write some new cnc software. Just about everyone who
> > replied to him said that he has been out of the picture too long
and
> > to give up the idea-he would never be able to catch up with some
of
> > the current guys. I was using cncpro on an almost daily basis up
> > until about 3 months ago. Built a new control for my flatbed mill
> > and installed mach3-wow what a difference! Mach3 is lightyears
ahead.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: dominickbox
> > > To: yeagerautomation@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:yeagerautomation%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:18 AM
> > > Subject: [yeagerautomation] What happened to Yeager Automation.?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone know what happened to the Yeager Automation website?
Also,
> > > anyone know what happened to this forum. it seems to have been
> > overrun
> > > with spam messages
> > >
> >
> >
>