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Tony Cox - (415)926-3105 <[email protected]> · Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:37:42 PST

Chip writes in response to my post regarding ASCII databases:-

>>But can we really lose code which is there "for the sake of speed"? Full
>>blooded conversion to ASCII data transfers would result in around 4x the amount
>>of data bring transferred over the EtherNet at IOC startup. No problem for 
>>small sites, but what about APS and CEBAF???
>
>ASCII loads to the IOC don't require 4x the amount of data, as only
>non-default values are transmitted.
>

I think the original proposal was to ASCIIize default.dctsdr, which is where
the default values are transmitted aren't they? This would send the size up
from 350K bytes to something over 1Mb. Still no problem for you?

regards
tc

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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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