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[mcn@luke.atdiv.lanl.gov (Matthew Needes)]

>We got bit trying to use multiple ":" in PV names, like
>        blah:blech:arf:urp

The CAPFAST database generation program (edif2sr) uses
the colon as a hierarchical name separator.  So far we
have had no problems with 3.10/3.11.

Perhaps you overflowed the maximum PV name size.
  (28 characters)

We find that we rarely overflow names since we rarely
design with more than 5 levels of hierarchy.

Matt