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Am 05.03.20 um 17:58 schrieb Daykin, Evan via Tech-talk:
> Is it correct that SIOL only holds 40 characters, or is this merely
> a cosmetic trait when the value is pulled from channel access?

The latter. Link fields no longer have this limit (or a much larger
one). But the DBR_STRING request type in CA has a fixed maximum number
of bytes. However, I believe you can nowadays (>= 3.15) use a trailing
'$' in the PV name to make CA use DBR_CHAR with the correct number of
elements.

Cheers
Ben

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