Re: Channel Watcher V2.0

["Pete R. Jemian" <jemian@uiuc.edu>]

> The Channel Watcher moves the save part of save/restore from the IOC to UNIX.  
Why is this an improvement over save/restore?
Doesn't it add to network traffic?
Don't get me wrong, I have problems with the save/restore process 
failing frequently.
I'm just curious about the motivations here in case they may
improve my systems by adding more reliability.

> CW V2.0 supports the caGet/caPut file formats,  
Hopefully, CW supports floating point numbers better than does caGet
which, say for a number 1.2e-9, reports that number as 0.000.
No way to tell caGet to use scientific notation instead.  Bummer.

Pete Jemian
UNICAT