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Subject:	VDCT strips \ character from field definitions
From:	"Porter, Rodney R." <[email protected]>
To:	<[email protected]>
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:24:54 -0600

In VDCT the ‘\’ character, used to signal special, nonprintable, characters is stripped from all field definitions when a file is read in and are then permanently lost when saved. i.e.

field(OUT,"@$(PORT) {\x040011\x022WL>%s}{\x06}")

becomes

field(OUT,"@$(PORT) {x040011x022WL>%s}{x06}")

This is a common usage for drvAscii serial communication.

Does anyone have a solution?

I tried to submit a bug report for VDCT, but the link from the EPICS site didn’t work and the link from their site is password protected.

Rodney Porter

Senior Scientific Programmer

Data Acquisition/Detector Systems

Intense Pulsed Neutron Source

Argonne National Laboratory

Bldg. 360, Rm. L-169