Experimental Physics and
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[email protected] (Rozelle Wright) · Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:36:05 -0700

> From [email protected] Tue Mar 31 12:28 MST 1998
> To: "tech talk" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: CA Server
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:27:39 -0600
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> You know . . . if people documented  and posted the info on all the various
> small widgets and snippets of code and routines that get created, the rest
> of the known universe would not have to dig through source code to try to
> find out how to use them . . . and a lot of the messages posted to these
> lists might just vanish.
> 
> Wonder just how much of everyone time has been spend trying to figure out
> what all this stuff does and how it is supposed to work for themselves since
> there seems to be no other way to obtain the required information.
> 
> Me
> 

Hi Me,
Sorting through documentation is sometimes a lot harder than sorting through
the code.  At least with code you know what part of the system 
you should look at and you are sure it is up to date.  
There is a reference to
several EPICS_CAS environmental variables in the channel access
reference manual available at the LANL Epics site 
Section  1.7  on Configurating a CA server.  There is also a comment that this
chapter of the document is "under construction".  This probably explains why 
EPICS_CAS_INTF_ADDR_LIST has not made it into the documentation yet.
Perhaps it will happen this summer if our technical writer comes back from 
school or if Jeff can get enough time off the phone answering EPICS questions 
so that he can update the documentation himself.
Meanwhile if someone else has a problem with a CA Server they can
do a search for the pattern "CA,Server" in the Epics Listserver Archives on
the top level of the EPICS Home page
and can find the solution that John Sinclair so kindly posted to this 
mail list.
Jeff will be back from Spring Break on Monday and may have some comments on
this topic himself.
Rozelle

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: john sinclair <[email protected]>
> To: tech talk <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: CA Server
> 
> 
> >I have found a solution: . . . . It is nice having the source code!
> >
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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