Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:55:01 -0500

Olaf Krebs wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In the EPICS record manual it is written, you can insert in the DESC
> field an arbitrary 28 character record. In Germany we have some special
> charater for oe, ue, ae, they have the ASCII value 123,124,125. If I
> used this characters in the DESC field the dbLoadRecord gives some error
> messages like "error in line..." In the US-ASCII-Set 123 and 125 stands
> for { }, are this character not allowed in DESC field ?, which other
> characters are also not allowed ?
> We are using epics 3.13 beta 11.

I tried the database

record(ai, "xxx:aiExample")
{
        field(DESC, "{}")
}

with

dbLoadRecords("temp.db")

No errors were reported. I tried this with beta11.

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System