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Marian Zurek <[email protected]> · Fri, 13 Dec 1996 20:45:55 +0100 (MET)

On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Rozelle Wright wrote:
# > 
# > 
# > Hi,
# > 
# > During my development process I wanted to use Data Fanout record (1st
# > time). When I tried to down-load database to the VME an error message  
# > appeared: 
# > 
# > " ...
# > Cannot find record type dfan
# > Cannot create record E:aa_dfan
# > Cannot find field DESC
# > Cannot set field DESC to data fanout record
# > Cannot find field SCAN
# > Cannot set field SCAN to Passive
# > Cannot find field PINI
# > Cannot set field PINI to NO
# > ...."
# > 
# > 
# > Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
# > 
# > Regards,
# > Marian Zurek
# > 
# > --
# > Marian Zurek
# > CERN
# > 
# > 
# > 
# > 
# > 
# > 
# Are you using capfast?   If so you may have an old version of the
# symbol library.  In the symbols edfan.sym and edfans.sym
# you should have Type:dfanout.
# 
# Some of the older versions had Type:dfan.
# and edb.def also matches them with 
# (RECORD "edfan" "edfans" "edfanm"
#         (Type "dfan")
# For the fanout record this should be declared as 
#       (Type "dfanout")
# 
# I checked with the version currently at APS and found that it has this
# problem also.  
# 
# I will discuss with Bakul how to deal with distributing symbol libraries.
# 
# Right now, I think LANL and the astronomy community have the same library,
# but CEBAF may have a different one and APS is a slightly older version
# of LANLs.
# 
# In the meantime, you could simply edit the symbols and edb.def and
# fix them.
# 

I did what You suggest above but it still doesn't work. 
Messages from the VME: 

"
Cannot find field INP
Cannot find field SEL
Cannot find field A
Cannot find field B
...
Cannot set field HOPR to 0.000000000000000e+00
Cannot set field LOPR to 0.000000000000000e+00

"

It looks that I have 'wrong' database definition for Capfast (?)

Regards,
Marian Zurek

--
Marian Zurek
CERN

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