Active-X and Epics

[Bill Nolan <bnolan@biochem.wustl.edu>]

Hi all,
    It looks like I am going to have to connect a number of devices in
to my system that only offer active-X hooks.
    I have two device types with widows control software that offer
Active-X interfaces, the remainder of my controls are Epics on Linux hosts.
Is the Active_X interface form the CA_interfaces page still the best way
to approach getting the two systems to talk ?
Would making a soft IOC and linking the vendor supplied Active X/dll's
in to sub() records be a better way to go ?

Thanks
--Bill

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