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[email protected] (Allan Honey) · Mon, 10 May 1999 08:08:29 -1000

> From [email protected] Mon May 10 06:01:58 1999
> Subject: RE: MV167 serial port 
> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 09:49:38 -0600
> Organization: LANL> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, May 10, 1999 10:13 AM, Philip Taylor [SMTP:[email protected]] wrote:
> > Is it possible to use the serial port(s) on an MV167 directly
> > from EPICS? 
> 
> Yes
> 
> > I can see there's an EPICS driver called drvSerial
> > at Keck - is this, or something else, suitable?
> > 
> 
> The drvSerial code uses the C STDIO library to communicate
> so it works with any serial device that has a vxWorks
> serial device driver. This code provides only queuing
> and framing services. Allen Honey at Keck has a driver which
> is layered on drvSerial which can be configured to communicate
> with serial devices that communicate over simple command line 
> ASCII based protocols. There are also a number of drivers for
> specific devices which use drvSerial.
> 
> Jeff
> 

In regards to drvAscci, the main thing to keep in mind is that, 
drvAscii assumes that the remote end will not send asynchronous data, 
that is, all data is prompted for from records on the Epics side.

You can get the source and a toy database (which will work if you
loopback rx and tx on your serial port) at Keck.

ftp to ftp.keck.hawaii.edu login as anonymous

cd /pub/epics/drivers

cd /drvAscii
ls
        drvAscii.README
        drvAscii.c
        drvAscii.h
        drvAscii.sch
        devAscii.c
        drvAscii.dbd

You will need drvSerial, upon which drvAscii is layered.
drvSerial was written for Keck by Jeff Hill. You should contact 
Jeff as I have an older version of drvSerial.

I'm happy to help if you have difficulties.

Allan

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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