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Subject: | RE: Generic Fieldbus Device Support (GPIB and others) |
From: | [email protected] (Jeff Hill) |
To: | <[email protected]>, "EPICS Techtalk" <[email protected]> |
Date: | Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:54:49 -0600 |
> > Dirk Zimoch wrote: > > > > I've written a generic device support that should be able to talk > > to all fieldbus devices, which do I/O as a stream of bytes. > > I call it the Stream Device. > > .... > > This is cool! I believe this could be the ultimate replacement for > devCommonGpib. Another generic approach to framing protocol for byte serial devices is drvSerial.c / devAscii.c. Both are available from KECK. > > 2) Concerning the INP/OUT field for INST_IO link type: "You have 78 > characters after the @, even though the Application Developers's Guide > says you only have 35 characters (Version 3.13.0.beta4)." > The original CA client API unfortunately still has a built in string length limitation of 40 characters. Removing this limitation is high up on the priority list. Jeff