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Subject: IOCs - What are the built-in device types?
From: David Bracey via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:44:14 +0000
There are apparently built-in device types that provide various useful data sources:

  #  get the current time-of-day
  field(DTYP, "Soft Timestamp")
  field(INP,  "@%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S%z")

  # get the specified environment variable
  field(DTYP, "getenv")
  field(INP, "@ENGINEER")

Where can I find documentation of these built-in DTYP's?



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