Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Pete R. Jemian" <[email protected]> · Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:31:56 -0600

At 11:30 AM 30-01-02 +0100, Bernhard Kuner wrote:

        epics> dbLoadRecords "dbExample1.db", "HORST"
        Error   Last token ")"
        input line: record(ai, "$(user):aiExample")
           in: path "."  file dbExample1.db line 1

Looks like you are on the right track.

Try this, instead:

dbLoadRecords "dbExample1.db", "user=HORST"

^^^^^

This tells the macro expander in dbLoadRecords

which macro parameter gets the value "HORST".

If your database has more than one macro, then the

syntax could be, for example:

dbLoadRecords
"ipDevApp/Db/serial_OI_block.db","P=iad:,N=:b6,C=0,IPSLOT=b,CHAN=6", "/db/dir"

where P, N, C, IPSLOT, and CHAN are used in the

ipDevApp/Db/serial_OI_block.db file as variable

parameters to be defined at the time dbLoadRecords

is called. The last parameter, "/db/dir", is an

optional reference to a directory which contains the path

to the database file. In this case, the file is

located at full path

"/db/dir/ipDevApp/Db/serial_OI_block.db"

Pete Jemian
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System