Physical feed override parallel port

Hi guys,

I'm having trouble configuring physical feed override.  I looked in other posts here and couldn't find it, apologies if there is already.
 I've always configured the external feed with pncconf and I found it easy, now I have a machine doing it with a parallel port and I used stepconf and I'm not able to do it….  I don't use analog potentiometer, but binary switches.  Does anyone have any tips?

Ingo

Pncconf is much more flexible for things like this than Stepconfig, because normally most parallel port configurations have far fewer i/o points available so are generally much more basic machine configurations. But if you've done this before in Pncconf, it would be accomplished in exactly the same way with a parallel port configuration, assuming that you have enough free inputs. (I'm guessing you have more than one parallel port, at least one of which is probably configured as input.) A parallel port configuration is capable of it, but you will have to make the changes by hand using a text editor. You should probably be able to simply copy the relevant lines from the Pncconf files and paste them into the Stepconfig files. Be sure to include the lines for the input pins as well (didn't see them in your attached image.) Then you will need to change the pin names from the Mesa card input pin names to the parallel port input pin names that you will be using.

Hello Todd,

so I'm really using two parallel ports, I did that I copied from pncconf to stepconf but it's giving this error message.  I put the 4 entries above next for you to see…

Ingo

I'm not familiar with the pin name "foincr." either. Could you post a copy of the working hal file you are coping from and the new one you are working on as attachments here so we can see what's going on. It is possible the original hal file is using a component I'm not familiar with, or is using an alias to rename the pins to other than normal. So we need to see the whole original file to understand what is going on.

foincr= Feed Overide Increments ?

This is a hal I've used with pncconf and 7i76E.  The new machine with parallel port that I'm trying to make tomorrow morning I can send the complete hal.  I copied this entire part of the Falcon machine's feed override increments.  Need some information in the header or in the ini file?