RE: Arrays in Start Up Scripts

["Mark Rivers" <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>]

Title: Message

Hi Darrell,

 

Here is an example of doing it from one of my startup scripts on vxWorks.  In my case I was doing it because I needed to pass a string that was longer that the maximum number of characters that vxWorks supports in constant character strings in startup scripts.  So I used malloc(), strcpy(), and strcat().  These are all accessible from the vxWorks command line/startup script.

 

# MAR345 shutter

str=malloc(256)

strcpy(str,"P=13BMD:,R=MAR345,IN=13BMD:Unidig1Bi14,")

strcat(str,"OUT=13BMD:filter1sendCommand.VAL")

dbLoadRecords("$(CARS)/CARSApp/Db/MAR345_shutter_serial.db",str)

 

 

Mark Rivers

 

 

 

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From: Darrell Nineham [mailto:darrell@hytec-electronics.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:04 AM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: Arrays in Start Up Scripts

 

Dear Fellow Tech-Talkers,

 

I'd like to pass an array of bytes into a config call in an EPICS start up script.

 

Anyone know of a trick for declaring and initialising an array in an EPICS / VxWorks start up script ?

 

 

Darrell Nineham

Hytec Electronics Ltd.

Tel: +44 (0) 118 975 7770

Fax: +44 (0) 118 975 7566

Web: www.hytec-electronics.co.uk

 

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