Re: Epics 3.13.5 supporting Windows 2000 ?

[matthias muntwiler <m.muntwiler@physik.unizh.ch>]

i can reproduce your error message on my win2k system with a "caget"
command at the command prompt whenever "caRepeater" is not running.
(check it by launching and stopping it manually.)

caRepeater.exe is started automatically by the ca.dll - probably with
ca_task_initialize. in order to suppress the message in your code,
waiting until caRepeater is running may help. i've never got the error
with my own code which uses direct ca.dll calls - for what reason ever.

besides, i'd like to emphasize that channel access runs very well on my
win2k system. i write a client application for a photoemission
spectroscopy experiment that runs under EPICS. the code is written in
borland delphi (object pascal), and it wasn't a big deal to access
ca.dll functions directly.

yours
matthias muntwiler

Goetz Pfeiffer wrote:
> When I start my test-program which is similar to executing a "caget"
> I see the following error message:
> 
> "Unexpected UDP failure WIN32 Socket Library Error 10054"
> 
> The actual reading of the record works, but the error message is printed
> each time I try to read a record, sometimes the message is printed
> twice, before the value can be read.
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> Does anyone know this error message ?
> 
> Has anyone sucessfully tested EPICS 3.13.5 or previous versions with
> Windows 2000 ?


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  matthias muntwiler
  surface physics, university of zurich
  swiss light source (sls), paul-scherrer-institut, villigen

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