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"Redman, Russell O." <[email protected]> · Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:25:37 -0800

Dear Shen Guobao,

Bernhard Kuner from Bessy has kindly provided me with an up-to-date set of
epics symbols for CapFast, included as an attachment to this message.  This
set does not include the corresponding CapFast menu, and I have not yet had
time to add entries for the records that were new with release 3.13.  I have
therefore added as a second attachment an older menu.  It is easy to add new
entries to the menu: just include with any plain text editor the pair of
lines like

string :get eai
text analog in (small)

where "eai" is the filename of the symbol (i.e. ~p3/library/epics/eai.sym)
and "analog in (small)" is the text to be displayed in the menu for that
entry.  (Note that I have renamed the file oldEPICS.MNU because I have
already added a few items to my working copy.)

If you have not met it before, the edif.tgz is a gzipped tar file.  My
version of tar recognizes these files and gunzips them automatically.
Otherwise it might be useful to 
> mv edif.tgz edif.tar.gz     ! gives it a more standard name
> gunzip edif.tar.gz          ! unpacks it to edif.tar
> tar xvf edif.tar            ! extracts all the files.
Then copy all the symbol files into ~p3/library/lib. Save the 
to All of the *.sym files in edif.  Copy oldEPICS.MNU to
~~p3/wcs/lib/EPICS.MNU.  

Included in the edif.tgz file is edb.def.  CapFast includes a utility
sch2edif that translates CapFast schematics into edif files.  The EPICS
utility e2db uses edb.def to translate the edif files into database files.
You will need to edit E2DB_SYSFLAGS in /EPICS/base/config/CONFIG_SITE to
point to the location of your edb.def file.

If you have not already discovered this, e2db is NOT included in the EPICS
base, but is available as an extension.  The best place I am aware of to
find this is the APS site http://www.aps.anl.gov/xfd/SoftDist/extensio.htm 
and copy over both files linked to in item 
8: CAPFAST Source for CAPFAST extensions: 
   "capfast_extensions_v_2_1_src.tar.gz": Includes db2capsym, dbst, e2db.
   3/8/99 See also: "CAPFAST_README"
(To find this page, start at the main APS epics site
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/ and follow the links "Host Software" ->
"Extensions Distribution".)

I also found this to be one of the more awkward and confusing steps in my
EPICS installation.  There does not yet seem to be a site with a standard
installation of the current EPICS symbols.  Personally, I think the correct
place for this would be the capfast_extensions_v_2_1_src.tar.gz file
mentioned above, and that Phase3 should have a link to this page for the
benefit of new EPICS installations.

Good luck,
Russell O. Redman

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernhard Kuner [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 1:01 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Capfast Library for EPICS

Dear Mister Russel,

here the Capfast library for epics-symbols as we use it here - mbbi
direct included.
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