Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I repeated the previous experiment, but this time I first cd’d to the EPICS Windows Tools directory.  In that case “where caRepeater” shows this:

 

C:\Program Files\EPICS Windows Tools>where caRepeater.exe

C:\Program Files\EPICS Windows Tools\caRepeater.exe

H:\epics\base\bin\windows-x64-static\caRepeater.exe

C:\Program Files\caQTDM\bin\windows-x64\caRepeater.exe

 

So it should be launching the versio of caRepeater from 2014, from this directory.

 

The result was the same.  Only if I run the version of caget from this directory does it show up in the Task Manager.  If I run any other version it does not show up.  So I conclude it is the version of caget, and not caRepeater that matters?

 

Mark

 

 

 

I just did an experiment with 4 different versions of caget.  For each experiment I did the following:

-          Kill the existing caRepeater task

-          Run caget

-          See if caRepeater.exe showed up in Task Manager Details tab.

 

The versions of caget I tested were

7.0.3.1

3.15.5

3.14.12.6

The version that comes with the most recent EPICS Windows Tools, caRepeater.exe dated 7/8/2014.

 

Of these only the EPICS Windows Tools version produced a caRepeater.exe that appeared in the Windows 10 Task Manager.  All of the others started caRepeater, but it was not visible in Task Manger.

 

Another question might be what version of caRepeater is actually run.  I assume this is the first one found in the PATH.

 

J:\epics\devel\dxp>where carepeater

H:\epics\base\bin\windows-x64-static\caRepeater.exe

C:\Program Files\caQTDM\bin\windows-x64\caRepeater.exe

 

H:\epics\base\bin\windows-x64-static is a soft link to base-7.0.3.1, so that should be the version of caRepeater it is running.

 

Mark

 

 

From: Matt Newville <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 10:16 AM
To: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
Cc: Engbretson, Mark S. <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Killing caRepeater on Windows 10