Monthly Archive: September 2012

New hardware supported (OMS UMX motor, Ketek DDP2 MCA)

spec now includes support for the new OMS UMX model motor controller. The UMX has a USB interface but appears as a serial device when the proper kernel drivers are available on Linux and Mac OSX. See the oms help file for details. spec 6.0 release includes initial support for the Ketek DPP2 digital pulse …

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Help facility

This spec release has a redesigned help facility. The internal help file parser and formatter have been removed and formatting is now handled by the standard groff and related utilities. Both the built-in help display and the stand-alone chelp program automatically stream formatted help files through the less pager with output sized to the width …

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