Re: EPICS on the Alpha

[watson@cds002.cebaf.gov]

>I think the original proposal was to ASCIIize default.dctsdr, which is where
>the default values are transmitted aren't they? This would send the size up
>from 350K bytes to something over 1Mb. Still no problem for you?
>
>regards
>tc

I have not studied it in that much detail.  Our databases add to over 100 MB
across about 36 IOC's.  We rarely boot all of them at the same time.  I think
the 1 MB is probably tolerable.  I must say, however, that I like Alan's
idea of using zip to compress the ascii (optionally, of course).

Chip