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Geoff Savage wrote:
> 
> We need to send strings of greater than 39 character length to the IOCs
> using CA.  I have developed new records and device support to do this
> based on existing the existing stringin and stringout software.  There
> seems to be a limit of 39 characters in CA.  Has anyone done this or
> solved the problem a different way?

CA limit for request type DBR_STRING is fixed, no chance fixing that.
The alternative is requesting type CHAR with an appropriate number of
array elements (<=16k).

Ben
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