no axis values with linuxcncrsh

Hi there
I am trying to read the axis values with a program via "linuxcncrsh" on linuxcnc 2.8.1. An axis GUI is running. I see values, for example X = 1,000, but a query like "get abs_act_pos \ n", "get rel_act_pos \ n", "get joint_pos \ n", "get pos_offset \ n" or "get joint_limit 0 \ n" comes in string "get abs_act_pos ABS_ACT_POS 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000". E.g. other commands work e.g. "set mode mdi \ n" and "set mdi g0x1 \ n".
What could I be doing wrong?

The source file is named emcrsh.c (not emcsh.cc)
The executable is named linuxcncrsh
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/2.8/sr...c/usr_intf/emcrsh.cc
(emcsh.cc is used for tcl interfaces)

The man page for linuxcncrsh is in the usual place:
linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man1/linuxcncrsh.1.html

There are also some working examples in the tests directory,
example:
github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/2.8/tests/linuxcncrsh

Hello everybody
Thank you very much, I fetched and created the whole project from scratch with git clone. No success, exactly the same as before, i.e. no axis values (all 0.000000)! Other commands work fine, (haven't checked all of them yet)
What I have found: If I start linuxcncrsh from the installed version linuxcnc, ie "/bin/linuxcncrsh", then it works as expected. If I copy the newly created linuxcncrsh into the /bin directory, it doesn't work either! I don't understand yet. I've only recently started working with the linuxcnc source code. If I have the time, I will follow it up. At the moment it's good for me.
thanks again
Ulrich


the picture is of the installed version /bin/linuxcncrsh

I am using linuxcncrsh,too.
Is this problem fixed?
is linuxcncrsh ok over network?