Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Now it works with the -d option:

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caget -d DBR_CTRL_DOUBLE BMLXRM:BEAM:SIGMAYatIP

BMLXRM:BEAM:SIGMAYatIP
    Native data type: DBF_DOUBLE
    Request type:     DBR_CTRL_DOUBLE
    Element count:    1
    Value:            0
    Status:           UDF
    Severity:         INVALID
    Units:            nm
    Precision:        10
    Lo disp limit:    0
    Hi disp limit:    0
    Lo alarm limit:   nan
    Lo warn limit:    nan
    Hi warn limit:    nan
    Hi alarm limit:   nan
    Lo ctrl limit:    0
    Hi ctrl limit:    0
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Thank you it works and I have what I wanted. For the capr perl script and to install new base version for now we will run soon so is better to not change things as they are working well. But will test it separately

Just one question: You notice the caget and cainfo command prints that Native data type is DBF_DOUBLE and Request type is  DBR_CTRL_DOUBLE so maybe is make sense to ask the native data type DBF_DOUBLE not DBR one?

/* database field types */
#define DBF_STRING  0
#define DBF_SHORT   1
#define DBF_FLOAT   2
#define DBF_ENUM    3
#define DBF_CHAR    4
#define DBF_LONG    5
#define DBF_DOUBLE  6

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