Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Marty Kraimer) · Thu, 1 Sep 1994 08:32:12 -0600

> From [email protected] Wed Aug 31 14:49 CDT 1994
> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 15:49:32 -0400
> From: [email protected] (Edmond Desmond)
> To: [email protected]
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> Chapter 10.3 of the IOC application developers guide defines the types 
> of the resource parameters which are defined in the resource.def file 
> which is read by iocInit as being of the types DBF_STRING, DBF_SHORT,
> DBF_LONG, or DBF_DOUBLE. When defineing EPICS_TS_MIN_WEST , getresources
> responds with an "unsupported types" error. IocInit was happy when
> the parameter was set to the type DBF_STRING. This behavior was also
> true for the PORT parameters. The functionality appears to be unaffected
> so these may be informative errors only. Is this true?
>

getResources allows you to set the value of  global variables.
You must know the type and set DBF_xxx properly. The most common usage
is to override one of the EPICS_xxx variables. ALL of these variables are of
type DBF_STRING. getResources has code to check for EPICS_ and print an
error message if you attempt override it with the wrong type of data.
The error message is misleading. It will be changed in the next release.
I will also add info to the App Dev Guide describing each EPICS_xxx
parameter. Note that the ioc command epicsPrtEnvParams will display
the values of each of the EPICS_ variables.

> Also, where is a source for Questwindows which is a requirement to build
> GDCT.  I assume this is a third party product for the Sun.

Yes it is. I will ask Ken Sidorowicz to send info about how to order it.
Note that if you obtain a statically linked version of GDCT you do not need
any license.

Marty Kraimer 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System