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Subject: Re: copying of monitored data
From: "Jeff Hill" <[email protected]>
To: "William Lupton" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:05:43 -0600
> 
> Thanks to those who replied to my question, to which Marty replied:
> > array and string scalar values are not queued...
> 
> I think it's worth pointing out that camonitor always requests
> DBR_TIME_STRING and so will, I believe, exhibit this behavior for all
> channels (I have certainly seen it for bi/bo/mbbi/mbbo etc). cau, on the
> other hand, always requests the native TIME type and, for enumerated
types,
> substitutes the string on the client side. 

The values are saved in the monitor queue only if the native 
database type of the field isn't string, and only if the native database
element count is one (scalar). This is independent of the
DBR type used by the CA client.

Sorry, no doubt that this needs to be added to the doc.

Jeff

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