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Re: EPICS on the Alpha |
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[email protected] (Bill Brown) |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Feb 95 11:27:27 PST |
> >A non-quantitive observation of the situation would show the lack of a
> >need to maintain the code that operates on the binary and old 'short
> >form' report files. As well as the elimination of the headache of
> >having to keep them in sync (which has been a significant complaint
> >from APS users.)
Indeed, having to wory about this is (IMHO) an "RPITA".
> I have been strongly advocating the movement into total ASCII database
> files and the removal/replacement of the SDR stuff. WRT the SDR stuff
> -- At a minimum, it should be represented in ASCII and have some of the
> oddities, like recSup.ascii, devSup.ascii and drvSup.ascii removed
> somehow.
Well put!
> I am (obviously) not advocating the conversion to/from ASCII of the data
> transfers that occur over CA... although, I see no reason to forbid
> it... and in fact, I think it is already somewhat supported in that you
> can fetch things in the form of a string.
--John
The one "fly in the ointment", so to speak, is the lack of tools for "pre-
init-time" verification of the .db files. This is the one _very_ useful
function of dct which seems to have no replacement.
But then, I seem to be one of those people who must exhaust all the incorrect
possibilities before finding the right combination to make anything work.
-bill
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