Re: DISP and permissive record.

["Debora Kerstiens" <dkerstiens@lanl.gov>]

Emmanuel,

Here's a description of the DISP field from the record reference manual.


     DISP  Disable putFields  If this field is set to TRUE, then all 
dbPutFields (normally issued by channel access) directed to this record are 
ignored except to the field DISP itself.



We used the permissive record back in early EPICS days. As Andrew mentioned, 
it was used for communicating between two or more programs. We used it 
primarily to communicate to/from the sequencer, but I haven't used it in 
application for many years.

Deb

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