Re: Pushing values to device on (re)connection to IOC

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

On 03/23/2018 02:28 PM, Eric Norum wrote:
> Is there a 3.15 version of the record reference manual somewhere?  The
> one I’ve been using
> https://wiki-ext.aps.anl.gov/epics/index.php/RRM_3-14
> is clearly old.

No, using a wiki didn't work well with multiple parallel releases, and
updating all those tables is almost impossible, so we started converting
those pages into Perl POD format inside the record.dbd file.

We strip off the POD before installing the DBD files, and generate HTML
from the POD and DBD info as part of the Build process (so the tables
get updated automatically). Unfortunately as you'll see if you look in
your base-3.15/html directory though we haven't got terribly far with
the conversion process. Help with this is always welcome, email me!

> My quick attempt at trying the above with the 4 changed to a 5 didn’t
> result in much useful….

Check the release notes for a description of the record-type changes:
    https://epics.anl.gov/base/R3-15/5-docs/RELEASE_NOTES.html

- Andrew

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