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Subject: More than four char's in a field name
From: Rosemary Alles <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:57:21 -1000
Aloha,

Does EPICS 3.13 permit more than four chars for record
field names when designing a new record?  Does this require
changing the value of FLDNAME_SZ defined in dbDefs.h?

The following comment seems to indicate that more than
four chars for a field name is *not* possible. (The comment
is from dbDefs.h)
 
./dbDefs.h:/* FLDNAME_SZ must be 4 */
./dbDefs.h:#define      FLDNAME_SZ      4       /*Field Name Size               */   


I have been able to compile a record with field names greater
than 4 chars but am concerned that other utilities within EPICS
might not be compatible with this change. 

Mahalo,
Rosemary.

-- 
Rosemary Alles
Software Engineer
Canada France Hawaii Telescope
e-mail: <[email protected]>
Phone : 808-885-3178
Fax   : 808-885-7288

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Re: More than four char's in a field name Marty Kraimer

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