[TAG] Stepper motor driver in Issue 122

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:44:35AM +0100, Neil Youngman wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 02:55, Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:10:26PM -0600, Jason Creighton wrote:
> > > Unless I'm really missing something, I don't think the actual code to
> > > write the parallel port was included in that article.
> >
> > As I recall, the author used a shell script to prod the device.
> >
> > > [ Aside to the Answer Gang: I am by no means a C expert, but I know a
> > > little bit about the language. ISTR some reader volunteering to
> > > proofread C code that comes up in future articles, but if not, I could
> > > step in and try to catch the obvious technical stuff. ]
> >
> > Well, Jan-Benedict Glaw volunteered - but I haven't actually seen any
> > result from it, despite prodding him a couple of times. I guess he's
> > been busy, or something. Your offer is gratefully appreciated, since my
> > C is too rusty to be useful except in trivial cases.
> 
> Ben
> 
> Feel free to CC me for a second opinion on any C/C++ stuff.

That's great, Neil; accepted with thanks. Even with Jason's kind offer,
it would still be very nice to have more than one person available to do
this.

Side note: anyone who contributes to the proofing process - technical,
HTML vetting, whatever - please add your name to that issue's STATUS
file as described there. We do not yet have a mechanism for using this,
but at some point in the near future, I'm hoping to have a bit of
processing added that will display those names on the index page of each
issue. Either via my ham-handed efforts, or someone else's Python skills
(which would be greatly preferred; when I take an axe to Python, it
ain't pretty), but it *will* happen.


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