Accessing EPICS Software Distribution

[banerjee@aps.anl.gov (Bakul Banerjee)]

Hello to EPICS community,

I thought it will be an appropriate time to remind you about the simple
method of accessing password protected EPICS.

1. Consult the Contact Person list in the EPICS Software Distribution
   at APS to make sure that nobody else from your organization already
   has the password.  Everybody on that list is the official keeper of 
   the password for their organization/project. They are also responsible for
   making sure that it is given to authorized users of EPICS.  If there
   is an existing contact person for your organization, get the password
   from him/her.

2. If the name of your org./project is not on the list and you are sure 
   that you are going to be responsible for EPICS development at your
   organization for a reasonable length of time (yes, I got a request
   from somebody who was leaving the organization next week!), check
   if your organization signed the EPICS agreement.    

3. Once you are some what sure that conditions in step 2 are met, please
   send me an e-mail with the following information:
    Your name
    Your institution's full name
    Your institutional postal address (not home addresses or e-mail addresses)
    Your business telephone number
    Your preferred e-mail address
   
    It is nice to have the following optional items:
    Fax number
    URL of the page where your EPICS related project description is kept
    URL of the page where you keep custom EPICs development for your site

   If you are not sure, contact Bob Dalesio or Mike Thouot at LANL.

4. We, Karen Collier(LANL) and myself, will take care of the rest. You will get    a password within a couple of days, and if you are lucky, may be within a
   couple of hours.  In case everybody forgot about the password, please
   send me an e-mail and I will reset the password. Also, make sure that
   your name is correctly included in the contact list

Please use the EPICS Software Distribution page only to access most up-to-date
version of software. Using various ftp site may work, but we cannot promise
anything. 

Again, I request you to send me links to any EPICS related software development
that you have done at your site.  Sharing it with rest of the ever growing
EPICS community will surely benefit the collaboration.

Regards.

Bakul Banerjee