Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Jeff Hill) · Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:54:49 -0600

> 
> Dirk Zimoch wrote:
> > 
> > I've written a generic device support that should be able to talk
> > to all fieldbus devices, which do I/O as a stream of bytes.
> > I call it the Stream Device.
> > ....
> 
> This is cool! I believe this could be the ultimate replacement for
> devCommonGpib. 

Another generic approach to framing protocol for byte serial devices is 
drvSerial.c / devAscii.c. Both are available from KECK.

> 
> 2) Concerning the INP/OUT field for INST_IO link type: "You have 78
> characters after the @, even though the Application Developers's Guide
> says you only have 35 characters (Version 3.13.0.beta4)."
> 

The original CA client API unfortunately still has a built in string length
limitation of 40 characters. Removing this limitation is high up on the
priority list.

Jeff

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System