Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

On 11/8/23 05:45, Érico Nogueira Rolim via Tech-talk wrote:
>
> This was an inconsistency I noticed in caget. The help output lists
> multiple DBR_...INT types as options for caget's -d option, but none of
> them work, because the dbr_text array from
> modules/ca/src/client/access.cpp includes only DBR_...SHORT strings.
> Would it be okay to simply remove the INT options from the help output
> entirely? Or should the tool try and replace "INT" for "SHORT", similar
> to how it adds "DBR_" when it doesn't find a match at first?

I had not noticed this before.  I guess because DOUBLE and LONG are much more common.

> $ caget -d INT some:name
> Requested dbr type out of range or invalid - ignored. ('caget -h' for help.)
...

Correcting the help message would be a good first step.