Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi Darrell,

Here is an example of doing it from one of my startup scripts on vxWorks.  In my case I was doing it because I needed to pass a string that was longer that the maximum number of characters that vxWorks supports in constant character strings in startup scripts.  So I used malloc(), strcpy(), and strcat().  These are all accessible from the vxWorks command line/startup script.

# MAR345 shutter

str=malloc(256)

strcpy(str,"P=13BMD:,R=MAR345,IN=13BMD:Unidig1Bi14,")

strcat(str,"OUT=13BMD:filter1sendCommand.VAL")

dbLoadRecords("$(CARS)/CARSApp/Db/MAR345_shutter_serial.db",str)

Mark Rivers