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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 17:08:44 +1100
Subject: Re: Question on using FP numbers in python 2
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote:
>> I'm afraid I can't really help more, as I don't speak CNC.
>
> Actually, the output is RS-274-D, originally from NIST.  But it has
> developed some pretty distinct "accents" in the 20 some years its been in
> the wild.  The NIST version was, shall we say, quite incomplete but a lot
> of the stuff shoved in to scratch this or that itch is often vaguely
> incompatible with the next vendors version of that particular function.

Ehh, I don't speak that either, but now I feel like a guy who's told
"Polly voo Fronsay?" and says that he don't speak no Eyetalon. :)

ChrisA