Re: VME: Cannot find record type dfan

[wright@luke.atdiv.lanl.gov (Rozelle Wright)]

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> Hi,
> 
> During my development process I wanted to use Data Fanout record (1st
> time). When I tried to down-load database to the VME an error message  
> appeared: 
> 
> " ...
> Cannot find record type dfan
> Cannot create record E:aa_dfan
> Cannot find field DESC
> Cannot set field DESC to data fanout record
> Cannot find field SCAN
> Cannot set field SCAN to Passive
> Cannot find field PINI
> Cannot set field PINI to NO
> ...."
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
> 
> Regards,
> Marian Zurek
> 
> --
> Marian Zurek
> CERN
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Are you using capfast?   If so you may have an old version of the
symbol library.  In the symbols edfan.sym and edfans.sym
you should have Type:dfanout.

Some of the older versions had Type:dfan.
and edb.def also matches them with 
(RECORD "edfan" "edfans" "edfanm"
        (Type "dfan")
For the fanout record this should be declared as 
	(Type "dfanout")

I checked with the version currently at APS and found that it has this
problem also.  

I will discuss with Bakul how to deal with distributing symbol libraries.

Right now, I think LANL and the astronomy community have the same library,
but CEBAF may have a different one and APS is a slightly older version
of LANLs.

In the meantime, you could simply edit the symbols and edb.def and
fix them.

Rozelle

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