Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Ben-chin K. Cha" <cha> · Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:19:30 -0600 (CST)

The old caget, caput in the ca directory can only accept
a single 'pvname' on the command line.

While the newer version of caget, caput in the EzcaScan directory
can accept single or multiple pvnames on the command line and few
new features. At APS the newer version are used.

To access the  newer version of caget, caput a user has to make
sure the LD_LIBRARY_PATH envrionment is correctly set.
For example,  at APS the /usr/local/epics/extensions/lib/$HOST_ARCH
is included in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, where HOST_ARCH can be either
solaris-sparc(R3.14.. built) or solaris(R3.13.. built)

I hope this help.

Ben-chin 

>
>Hi Paul,
>
>I have a directory in my extensions tree called "ca" which contains files
>like:
>
>caDb.c
>caGet1.c
>caInfo.c
>....
>....
>caput.c
>caget.c
>....
>etc
>
>This came as part of a tarball of extensions before they were
>separated. (I believe I downloaded it in about March/April 2001).
>I also have a "caput.c" and a "caget.c" in a directory
>"EzcaScan" which are different. We tend to use the ones from the "ca"
>directory as I think some scripts we developed depend on their precise
>functionality.
>
>I don't see the equivalent "ca" directory as being separately
>downloadable from the Web page (but I may just not have looked
>long enough).
>
>If you want me to tar this up and send it to you, let me know.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Andy
>
>
>On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Ralph Lange wrote:
>
>>   > I'm looking for the unix CA Utility program caput, caGet1, etc... and 
don't
>>   > see where they are on the Extensions Download page.  They used to be in
>>   > EzcaScan, but that is gone too.
>>
>>   > Are the utilities still available ?
>>
>> A minimal set of CA command line tools will be part of EPICS base -
>> probably with the next base release.
>> It's on my to-do list (lower half of upper third).
>>
>> For now - I don't have any clue. And: which one of the four or five
>> slightly different versions are you looking for?
>>
>> Hope this ... no, it doesn't really help.
>>
>> On the extensions download page, the packages CA Monitor and OAG CA seem
>> to have things that look at least similar.
>>
>> *Shrug.*
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>

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