I got some stepper drives from work and the literature says they have built in indexers. I tried looking it up and what I could come up with is they generate step and direction code. The only thing I could think that would come in handy for is to jog the motor. If the drive creates its own step and direction, you could just run one or two wires to the drive (plus power supply) and be able to jog it back and forth. Am I way off?