Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Ned Arnold) · Fri, 14 Nov 1997 07:58:07 -0600

> Hi Folk,
> 
> I'm looking for a tool to convert .ascii files into
> dbd format. Could you help ?
> 
> Reegards,
> 
> Gabor Csuka
> --
> DESY , Germany
> 

I grabbed this paragraph from the "EPICS Release Notes R3.13.0Beta4"
on the ANL Documentation site. I think it will do what you want.

default.dctsdr conversion tools

NOTES 

       In the following default.dctsdr is optional. If not given the tool just 
looks for the file "default.dctsdr" in the current directory. 
       All output files are placed in the directory from which the tool is 
executed. 

The following tools are provided: 

       sdr2gblmenu [default.dctsdr] 
       All global menus are written as separate files. 
       sdr2recordtype record_type record_type.h [default.dctsdr] 
       A record type definition file is generated. 
       sdr2device [default.dctsdr] 
       All device definitions are placed in a file called device.dbd 
       sdr2driver [default.dctsdr] 
       All driver definitions are placed in a file called driver.dbd 

For all utilities the required database definition files are generated from a 
dctsdr file from a previous epics release. A dctsdr file can be specified or 
else the utilities can
be run in a directory which contains default.dctsdr (or a soft link with that 
name). sdr2recordtype also requires the header file generated by a previous 
epics release. 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System