Re: EPICS r3.13 field DESC length

[Andy Foster <ajf@ast.cam.ac.uk>]

Dear All,

William mentioned adding a new field for "truncation", while
we're on the subject of new fields for records, how about 
encouraging everyone writing new records to include a field:

        field(VERS,DBF_DOUBLE) {
                prompt("Version Number") 
                promptgroup(GUI_DISPLAY) 
                special(SPC_NOMOD)
                interest(1)
        }                

so that running applications can easily find out which particular
version of a record they are using. I added such fields to the
Gemini records when I did the conversion to 3.13.

Cheers,

Andy

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