streamDevice Exception Handler Question

["Martin L. Smith" <mls@aps.anl.gov>]

When using steamDevice exception handlers and in particular the
replytimeout and readtimeout handlers, what would one normally
do in these handlers?

For a mismatch I simply get whatever the received data was and put
that in a string record for display so that I know that something
went wrong ... since the error messages are now suppressed from this
error.

Is it possible to set a PV to a value without using an "in" command?
Or would I simply look at the STAT field of the record using the protocol
to know that something happened in the case of a timeout error?

Thanks,
Marty