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[email protected] (Garrett D. Rinehart) · Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:30:27 -0600

I'm in the process of wading through the piles of hacks that I've 
accumulated in trying to keep up with EPICS for the past six 
years. I'm trying to clean up/reorganize/rebuild everything under 
3.13.0beta11, including all of my databases. I finally got 
gdct313 working well (meaning I finally figured out where to put 
everything so that it was happy), and found that I could load my 
old databases into the new gdct with only a few adjustments to 
the .db files. Then I got to the second database. It uses macro 
substitution in the calc field of a calc record. GDCT313 won't 
have anything to do with it. As a test, I made a test database. 
It will let me enter "$(name)" as the record name, but it chokes 
on "$(whatever)" in the calc field. I haven't tested to see what 
other fields won't take it... I'm hoping someone will tell me 
that it still works but I have to do something differently. 

-- Garrett Rinehart
   IPNS, ANL

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System