EPICS Old Documentation Page

This is a copy of the old EPICS documentation page which is no longer maintained or updated. Do not link to this page. If there are no other more specialized areas on the EPICS Website then link to the EPICS Documentation page.

APS General

• APS Controls Overview (Hypertext)
• Status of the APS and Its Accelerator Control System (Hypertext)

W. McDowell, M. Knott, M. Kraimer (9/93)

EPICS General

• EPICS Development, Distribution, and Support (Hypertext)

by Marty Kraimer, Bob Dalesio, Bill McDowell, Janet Anderson (6/5/95)
• EPICS 'man' Pages (Hypertext)
• EPICS Overview (Hypertext)
• Greg's Quick-n-EZ Guide To EPICS R3.11.6 (Text[10k])

by Greg Nawrocki (11/94)
• EPICS Architecture (Postscript[300k])

L.R. Dalesio (LANL), M. R. Kraimer (ANL), A. J. Kozubal (LANL) (9/93)
• EPICS: A Control System Software Co-Development Success Story (Hypertext)

M. Knott (ANL), D. Gurd (SSCL), S. Lewis (LBL), and M. Thuot (LANL) (9/93)

NON - EPICS Manuals

• CVS Manual (Postscript[653k])

by Per Cederqvist (cvs 1.9)
• GNU Make (Postscript[867k])

by Richard M. Stallman and Roland McGrath (5/96, make Version 3.75 Beta)

IOC Application Development

• Application Developer's Guide R3.13.0.Beta12 (Valid for 3.13.1)

PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader  3.0 or later) (Postscript-zipped[267K])(Postscript-A4-zipped[269k])
• Application Developer's Guide R3.13.0.Beta11 (Postscript[1.4M])(Postscript-zipped[267K])(Postscript-A4[1.4M])(Postscript-A4-zipped[269k])

by Martin R. Kraimer (07/97)
• Application Developer's Guide R3.13.0.Beta4 (Postscript[1.4M])(Postscript-zipped[267K])(Postscript-A4[1.4M])(Postscript-A4-zipped[269k])

by Martin R. Kraimer (11/96)
• Application Developer's Guide R3.12 (Hypertext)(Postscript [870k])

by Martin R. Kraimer (11/94)
• Application Developers Guide R3.11.6 (Postscript[770k])

by Martin R. Kraimer (5/94)
• Channel Access Reference Manual R3.12 Hypertext(Postscript[180k])

by Jeffery O. Hill (3/16/95)
• Channel Access Reference Manual R3.11 (Postscript[150k])

by Jeffery O. Hill (5/94)
• Channel Access Security (Postscript[150k])

by Marty Kraimer and Jeff Hill (5/94)
• State Notation Language Users Guide version 1.9 (Hypertext-LANL)

by Andy Kozubal (10/95)
• State Notation Language Users Guide (Postscript[1.1M])

by Andy Kozubal (9/1/93)
• Record Reference Manual R3.13 (Hypertext)
• Record Reference Manual R3.12

(Hypertext)(Postscript [2.0M]) (A4-Postscript [2.1M])
Janet B. Anderson and Martin R. Kraimer (Issue 1b: 6/96-Draft)
• Record Reference Manual R3.11 (Postscript[1.3M])

by Janet Anderson and Marty Kraimer (10/92-Draft)
• VxWorks Global Symbol Table Device Support (LBL-Hypertext)

by Carl A. Lionberger (5/93)

IOC: Database Configuration Tools

• JDCT (JAVA DCT) for 3.13 (Hypertext)

by John Anderson and Soon-Ok Park (01/15/99)
• GDCT for 3.13 (Hypertext)

by Jim Kowalkowski (11/01/96)
• DCT for 3.13 (Hypertext)

by John L. Anderson (11/01/96)
• GDCT User's Manual (Hypertext)

by Jim Kowalkowski (10/7/93)
• Sample GDCT Screen
• DCT User's Guide (Postscript[850k])< by Frank R. Lenkszus (5/30/91-Draft)

Software Configuration Management (was: Building and Source/Release Control)

• Software Configuration Management for EPICS Base and IOC Applications (Hypertext) (PostScript [65Kb]) (PDF [225Kb])

Releases 3.13.1 and 3.13.2 (December 1999)
by Marty Kraimer, Andrew Johnson, Janet Anderson and Ralph Lange
Quick Reference Card for Chapter 7 (PostScript [3KB])
 
• IOC Applications: Building and Source/Release Control (Hypertext)

R3.13.0beta12 and R3.13.1
by Marty Kraimer, Janet Anderson, and Ralph Lange(17-JUN-98)
• IOC Applications: Building and Source/Release Control R3.13.0beta11 (Hypertext)

by Marty Kraimer and Janet Anderson(07-JUL-97)
• Application Source/Release Control R3.12 (Hypertext) (Postscript[200k])

by Bob Zieman, Janet Anderson and Marty Kraimer (1/23/95)
• Source/Release Control R3.12 (Hypertext) (Postscript [310k])

by Matthew Needes, Janet Anderson, and Marty Kraimer (2/16/95-Draft)

IOC Support: Record, Hardware, Timestamp, etc

• List of EPICS Record Support (LBL-Hypertext)
• List of EPICS Supported Hardware (LBL-Hypertext)
• Allen Bradley: Device and Driver Support (Hypertext)

by Marty Kraimer, Bob Dalesio, Ric Claus, Stephanie Allison (Dec 97)
• Allen Bradley: Hardware Reference Manual (Hypertext) (Postscript [755k])

by Greg Nawrocki
• Allen Bradley Home Page
• Bitbus Universal Gateway Owners Manual (Postscript)

by Greg Nawrocki
• Bitbus Universal Gateway Paper (Postscript)

by Greg Nawrocki , etall
• GEMINI Hardware Documentation (Postscript [354k]) (Hypertext)

by Andrew Johnson
• Global Event System Support (Postscript [98k])

by John Winans (3/94)
• GPIB Device Support (Hypertext)

by John Winans (3/96)
• GPIB Device Support (Postscript[122k])

by John Winans (9/93)
• MIZAR Mz8310 (Postscript [83k])

by Marty Kraimer
• Synchronized TimeStamp Support by Jim Kowalkowski. (8/95)
• MPF: Message Passing Facility - A Replacement for HiDEOS (Hypertext)
• HiDEOS by Jim Kowalkowski. NO LONGER SUPPORTED
• GDD User's Manual by Jim Kowalkowski (11/7/96)
• Timing System Observations

(Hypertext) (Postscript [63k]) (A4-Postscript [74k])
by John Winans (3/1/94)
• VME System Monitor Board Hardware Manual (Hypertext) (Postscript 1.4Mb]

by Mike Hoffberg
• VME System Monitor Board Hardware Schematics (Postscript [1.4Mb])

by Mike Hoffberg
• VXI Support Library man Pages (Text)

by Jeff Hill
• One-way Data Transfer for PLC to VME Status Reporting at the APS (Hypertext)

S. J. Stein (9/93)

Release Notes

• EPICS Release Notes R3.13.2 (Hypertext)

(21-DEC-99)
• Bug and Fix Report R3.13.2 (Hypertext)

(18FEB2000)
• EPICS Release Notes R3.13.1 (Hypertext)

(20-NOV-98)
• EPICS Release Notes R3.13.0Beta12 (Hypertext)

(17-JUN-98)
• EPICS Release Notes R3.13.0Beta11 (Hypertext)

(17-JUL-97)
• EPICS Release Notes R3.13.0Beta4 (Hypertext)

(11/08/96)
• Bug and Fix Report Release 3.13.0Beta4 (Hypertext)
• EPICS Release Notes R3.12.2 (Hypertext)

(11/1/95-Draft)
• EPICS Release Notes R3.12.1.2 (Hypertext)

(9/19/95-Draft)
• EPICS Release Notes R3.11.6 (Hypertext) (Postscript[42k])

(6/94)
• EPICS Release Notes R3.11.3 (Hypertext)

(1/94)
• EPICS Release Notes R3.11 (Text[32k])

(1/94)

Extensions

• Alarm Handler Users Guide (Hypertext) (PDF) (Postscript-zipped)

by Janet Anderson (June 1999)
• Archive Retrieval Tool: Part I: arr User's Guide (Hypertext) (Postscript[495k])

by Carl Timmer (2/10/95)
• Archive Retrieval Tool: Part II: arr Programmer's Guide (Hypertext) (Postscript[82k])

by Carl Timmer (2/10/95)
• Archiver Reference Manual (Postscript[510k])

by Roger Cole (1/25/93-Draft)
• AR and ARR User Information Manual (Postscript[3.4M])

by Roger Cole (10/90)
• Array Display Tool (ADT) Reference Manual (Hypertext) (Postscript[106K]) (Picture)

by Kenneth Evans, Jr. (12/95 or later)
• BURT: Back Up and Restore Tool (Hypertext) (Postscript[680k])

by Nicholas T. Karonis (11/94)
• A Framework For Back-up and Restore Under EPICS (Postscript[88k])

by Nicholas T. Karonis (12/92)
• CaMath User's Guide (Hypertext) (Postscript[145k])

by Ben-chin Cha and Bob Daly (7/13/94)
• CaMath User's Guide (Postscript[140k])

by Ben-chin Cha and Bob Daly (1/93)
• CaWave Users Guide (Postscript[186k])

by Ben-chin Cha (8/1/93)
• CaWave 3.1 Release Notes (Hypertext) (Postscript[145k])

by Ben-chin Cha and Tim Mooney (7/19/95)
• CaWingz Users Guide (Hypertext)

by Ben-chin Cha (4/94)
• CaWingz User's Guide (Postscript[58k])

by Ben-chin Cha (10/93)
• EDD/DM Manual (Hypertext)

by Philip Stanley (11/96)
• ET: EPICS TCL/TK Interface (Hypertext) (Postscript[100k])

by Bob Daly (2/95)
• EZCA Primer (Hypertext) (Postscript [90k])

by Nicholas T. Karonis (1/95)
• General Purpose Button (Hypertext)
• IT: IDL TCL/TK Interface (Hypertext) (Postscript[75k])

by Bob Daly (2/95)
• Knob Manager Operator's Guide (Hypertext)

(10/8/93) Sample Screen (Hypertext)
• MEDM Reference Manual (Hypertext) (Postscript[2.0M])

by Kenneth Evans, Jr. (4/18/00 or later)
• MEDM Operators Manual [Out of Date] (Hypertext)

by F. Vong (11/18/94)
• MEDM Sample Control screens (Hypertext)

by F. Vong (3/36/96)
• MEDM Color Selection Guidelines (Hypertext)

by F. Vong (3/36/96)
• msi - Macro Substitution and Include Tool (Hypertext) by Marty Kraimer (APR 99)
• Namecapture (Hypertext) (Picture)

by Kenneth Evans, Jr. (8/97)
• Parameter Display Page program (DP) (Hypertext) (Sample DP Screen)

by Mark Anderson (2/19/94)
• SGA - Simple GIF Animator (Hypertext) (Picture)

by Kenneth Evans, Jr. (9/99)
• XMCA and PROBE Users Guide (Postscript[398k])

by Ben-chin Cha and Fred Vong (11/93-Draft)

Training

• Introduction to Accelerator Control Systems using EPICS

(Hypertext index) (Zipfile)
by Ned Arnold, Andrew Johnson and Marty Kraimer (includes material by others) (6/99)
PowerPoint slides from the EPICS course at the US Particle Accelerator School held at Argonne in June 1999.
• Debugging EPICS Applications For Beginners

(Hypertext) (Postscript[272k])
by Rozelle Wright (1/95)
Copies of the viewgraphs presented by Rozelle Wright at the January 1995 EPICS Collaboration Meeting.
• Introduction to EPICS Viewgraphs

(Hypertext) (Postscript[635k]) (A4-Postscript[639k])
by Ned Arnold (5/96)
• EPICS Overview Viewgraphs

(Hypertext) (Postscript[240k]) (A4-Postscript[242k])
by Marty Kraimer (5/96)
• Database Operations Viewgraphs

(Hypertext) (Postscript[296k]) (A4-Postscript[299k])
by Ned Arnold (5/96)
• GDCT Overview Viewgraphs

(Hypertext) (Postscript[92k]) (A4-Postscript[93k])
by Jim Kowalkowski (5/96)
• Execution Flow Viewgraphs

(Hypertext) (Postscript[144k]) (A4-Postscript[145k])
by Marty Kraimer (5/96)
• HiDEOS Overview Viewgraphs

(Hypertext) (Postscript[124k]) (A4-Postscript[126k])
by Jim Kowalkowski (5/96)
• HiDEOS Further Details Viewgraphs

(Hypertext) (Postscript[126k]) (A4-Postscript[127k])
by Jim Kowalkowski (5/96)
• State Notation Language Overview Viewgraphs

(Hypertext) (Postscript[345k]) (A4-Postscript[347k])
by Ned Arnold (5/96)
• Channel Access Tutorial Viewgraphs

(Hypertext) (Postscript[210k]) (A4-Postscript[212k])
by Marty Kraimer (5/96)

Miscellaneous

• Links in a Distributed Database: Theory and Implementation (Postscript[189k])

by Nicholas T. Karonis and Martin R. Kraimer (12/91)
• A Methodology For String Resolution (Postscript[72k])

by Nicholas T. Karonis (11/92)
• Device Access Library: User's Guide and Reference (Hypertext)

by Claude W. Saunders (Draft)
• EPICS Documentation Templates (FrameMaker 4.0) For downloading to your system.
• Short Document Templates (less than 15 pages)

UnNumbered Numbered
• Medium Document Templates (more than 15 pages, but not enough for a book)

UnNumbered Numbered
• Book Templates (for chaptered documents)

Title Page Table Of Contents UnNumbered Chapter Numbered Chapter Glossary Reference Index
• Templates for EPICS Documentation memo Hypertext Postscript[55k]

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