Thank you for your continued interest and help. You have given me good suggestions. I would like to find a better way because my CNC has been out of commission now for months and I have kept trying but to no avail. You mentioned pncconf before and I had looked at it again though I had tried it when I first set up my machine years ago. I concluded it was for use with machines equipped with Mesa cards. And I made the same conclusion when you mentioned it recently.
But I printed out pncconf.html so I could study it at length. I again tried the widget and ran into problems. I did not really follow the instruction in how it applied to my CNC machine and could not see where I was going but skipped over the Mesa references and persisted.. I got to page 4 of the printout with the paragraph heading 'Mesa' where it say you must choose at least one Mesa board as PNCconf will not configure the parallel ports to .... output step or PWM signals and this stopped me.
I am sorry but I do not understand how I can use PNCconf.
