Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Paul Sichta" <[email protected]> · Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:40:40 -0500

I'm in agreement with all four of Ben's points,  especially (3).  Jeff
recently suggested to someone to use "casr" for a problem they were having.
This helped me identify a (unrelated) problem in a couple of my CA client
programs.

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Paul Sichta
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
609-243-3477

> I like the idea of a summary posted by the initiator of a thread, in
> order to have a compact reference in case one encounters a similar
> problem. I'd go even further and propose to cross-post these summaries
> to a dedicated mailing list for easier reference.
>
> I dislike to have *only* this summary posted and not the original
> attempts at a solution. My reasons are:
>
> (1) Sometimes fruitful discussions of important general topics arise
> from a thread about a specific problem. If people don't have access to
> the answers to a specific problem, they cannot participate.
>
> (2) The "open mode" that is usually followed in tech-talk, often keeps
> people from answering to a question because somebody else already gave
> the (same) answer.
>
> (3) I learned quite a lot about EPICS by carefully reading the postings.
>
> (4) IMHO the tech-talk is more than a technical support list, but also a
> general forum aimed at the improvement of EPICS. We should keep in mind
> that EPICS is the result of collaboration.
>
> Ben
> --
> The Notorious Neb Nesknarf
>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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