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>>> On 8/24/2001 at 12:41:41 EDT, Brian McAllister wrote:

  > Why is RVAL defined as SPC_NOMOD in mbboDirectRecord.dbd (making it
  > impossible to work around that limitation) while the Record Ref Manual
  > states that RVAL is Access=YES, Modify=YES ?

I now see that the current implementation of the record makes writing to
RVAL pointless, as it is overwritten by the conversion from VAL whenever
the record is processed.

The documentation is still wrong.

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Brian McAllister                    Controls Programmer/Beam Physicist
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