Re: MBBO Record Initialization

[Maren Purves <m.purves@jach.hawaii.edu>]

According to http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/soft.php
it's Kevin Tsubota at Keck.

I hope you don't mind if I copy this to tech-talk again, I forgot the
first time, but as Ralph just reminded us to email the answers to the
questions as well I'd like to do that.

Maren

Szalata, Zenon M. wrote:
> Thank you.  Yes, it would work but what is pvload?  Where can I find documentation, etc. for it?
> I don't see it in "EPICS IOC Application Developers Guide".  It seems to be a utility of some kind.  Where can I download the software from?
>
> Thanks again,
> Zen 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maren Purves [mailto:m.purves@jach.hawaii.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 4:44 PM
> To: Szalata, Zenon M.
> Subject: Re: MBBO Record Initialization
>
> Szalata, Zenon M. wrote:
> > I would like to initialize dynamically, at record initialization time, strings associated with the states in a "Soft Channel" mbbo record.  I am looking for the simplest way to do this.  I can think of concocting some fictitious device and write device support for mbbo for this device, etc., which I think would work.  I hope there is a simpler way.
> > Any help on this would be appreciated.
>
> If it would work for you to put in the strings just after initialization you could use pvload.
>
> Maren