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[email protected] · Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:11:53 -0600 (CST)

re...,

>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
>UNICAT
>

Careful...

That last argument is not supported in the standard dbLoadRecords
command built in EPICS base.  It's only supported in the local copy 
of dbLoadRecords (also dbLoadTemplate) in the synchrotron-beamline
software package, synApps.

For completeness, I added this argument when support for automatically
generated soft links was deleted from the EPICS make rules, with the
result that loading lots of databases from lots of different share
directories turned st.cmd into a 'cd' spaghetti.

Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.

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