Experimental Physics and
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Jeff Hill <[email protected]> · Fri, 9 Jan 1998 14:40:23 -0700

> > Your proposal is one way to handle the problem (yet another dbCommon
> > field???). It does, however, require that the client take a channel
> > name, strip off the field, append "RTYP", and do a search and get. Maybe
> > this is an OK interim solution. Another possibility is too see if some
> > changes to dbAccess and ca can make it possible to just ask CA directly
> > for the record type just like you can now ask for native type, native
> > count, etc.
> 
> How is this simpler for the end user?  Seems like this makes more
> work.  Better to provide a record field, then end users can access the
> .RTYP field through a caget call.

In fact this really makes it easier for generic programs such as dm and cau
(and for the users of these programs).

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System