Re: Generic Record Types

[mooney@aps.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)]

Jeff, re...

>         There are several generic records that Mark Rivers has written
> for EPICS R3.12 that would be very useful in R3.13.  In particular, the
> generic VME record and the generic GPIB record would be very useful for
> some of my work.
> 
>         Does anyone have a tool for converting .ascii files into
> the required .dbd files or has someone already converted these files into
> the format required to use these generic record types in R3.13?  (It may
> not be as simple as just converting .ascii files into .dbd files.)

3.13.0-compatible versions of all of Mark's records are included
(buried, really) in a tar file available from the EPICS Software
Distribution web page at APS.  Here's the specific URL

http://www.aps.anl.gov/XFD/SoftDist/swBCDA/xfdApp_R3.13.0.beta7_unbuilt.tar.gz

It's not just the .dbd files, by the way.  There are changes in the
record-support code as well, and file names have changed to agree
with other 3.13 software.  The new file names are vmeRecord.{c,dbd} and
gpibRecord.{c,dbd}.

Tim Mooney
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab