Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Goetz Pfeiffer <[email protected]> · Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:33:49 +0200 (METDST)

Hi,

I would like to announce Sch2db.pl. This is a perl-script
that converts capfast drawings (*.sch - files) directly to
the epics db-format (*.db files).

By using this script, sch2edif and e2db are no longer needed.
You can convert your capfast files without the need to have
capfast or the capfast license-server installed on your system.

However, this script needs the capfast symbol-files (*.sym). The
path to these files can be given on the command-line or can be
hard-coded into the script (look for "$opt_sympath"...).

The script has a short help-text which can be seen with
"./Sch2db.pl -h"

The no-defaults ("-n") option can be used in order to see
at a glance, what a capfast drawing really defines, by omitting
all default-values and just showing fields that are set to a
specific value. Together with "dbdiff" I use this to have a kind
of "diff" utility for capfast files.

Benjamin Franksen ([email protected]) has modified
"makeBaseApp.pl" here at BESSY in order to use Sch2db.pl instead
of sch2edif and e2db during make.

The script has been tested with most of the capfast-drawings here
at BESSY and converts them the same way the combination of
sch2edif and e2db does.

The script can be found at:

http://www-csr.bessy.de/~pfeiffer/perl/Sch2db.pl

I hope somebody finds this software useful.
Suggestions or comments are welcome.

greetings

  Goetz Pfeiffer            ([email protected])

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System