Re: cavget of a waveform

[Bob Soliday <soliday@aps.anl.gov>]

Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some of you may be familiar with the cavget alternative to caget.
> I am currently trying to cavget a waveform record.
> To my surprise, this utility only returns the last value of the
> waveform. Is there an option/trick to have cavget, like caget, return
> the entire waveform ?
>
> --
> Emmanuel

cavget does not handle waveforms. It returns the first element in the 
waveform only. What I would suggest is that you use:

sddswget -PVnames=BRF:K5:WaveformCh8 -pipe=out | sdds2stream -pipe=in 
-col=Waveform

--Bob