Experimental Physics and
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[email protected] (Marty Kraimer) · Thu, 18 Jan 1996 09:21:13 -0600

> From [email protected] Thu Jan 18 08:25 CST 1996
> From: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
> Subject: Doc: Link Field Syntax
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> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:21:41 +0100 (MEZ)
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> Hi all.
> 
> One of my colleagues, who just started designing his database, asked me
> where to find a description of what he has to type into the hardware link
> fields, i.e. a description of the link field's syntax for the different link
> types.
> 
> I didn't find anything --- did I miss something or has link.h been declared
> self-explaining (which IMHO would be at least disputable)?
> 
> Ralph

If you use a databse configuration tool (dct gdct) it should prompt you
for what to enter.

Formerly the link info was not documented. In the next version of
App Dev Guide it will be documented. On the EPICS WWW doc there
is a heading "EPICS Work In Progress around the world". Under there
is a document "Application Developers Guide Changes (postscript)".
This is describing the NEXT release of EPICS so most of
it does not apply to the current release. The description of what is
allowed in link fields is, however, correct for the existing release.

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System