Urgent help required with EMC please

Thank you very much for your kind info. I originally thought this was happening but was little bit confused. So is it possible to evaluate after how long delaystart=true, it sends back the signal delaydone=true? Basically how long it the delay and formula to calculate it? Or is there a present variable which defines this delay, if there is, can I extend or shorten it?

So Andy, as Todd explained, when delaystart=true, the timer starts and after whatever time it sends the signal back to the comp saying delaydone=true. Am I correct? But here is the question then, how can I extend or shorten this timer? I mean the gap between between these two signals? Any variable set to fix this in milliseconds or seconds and if I can change its value?

In the hal code there is a line change that number to what ever delay in seconds you would like.

Also is there a way to uninstall a comp previously installed? The problem is before I installed "emcochanger" and now because I am using "oracchanger", I wan to uninstall the other comp which I am no longer using to avoid any interference with this comp. I have unloaded it from hal files but still can I uninstall it completely?

Thank you very much, it was very helpful Andy. So if I change that digit 5 to whatever, like lets say 3, the delay will be 3 seconds? Yes? And thank you very much indeed for sharing another code to program a timeout.

In the same original comp, under instructions, how to install this comp, there is a line instructing to install timerdelay2.comp

'sudo comp --install timedelay2.comp'

I do not see any section in the file to grab the code for this timerdelay2.comp

Obviously if I do not have the comp file for it, how can I install it and the code for this comp is not in the file? Is it something that is already in the linuxcnc and comes with it installed or I will still need to install it and if that is the case where can I find the coding for it so I can make comp file and install it manually.

Andy my Lathe is an Emco but the original tool changer written for it is a little more different than the one written for Orac, so I prefered to use orac ones so that I need to alter as little as possible. So I left the comp name as it is. I will change it once it is 100% completed to suit my needs. But I just wanted to tidy up making sure I am not leaving any instances of previosuly installed comps even though I am not using them or loading them in hal file. So you are sure even my previous comp is installed, it will not do any trouble or interfere with my current if I do not load it with hal file, yes?