Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Liyu, Andrei" <[email protected]> · Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:31:15 -0500

Andrew,

You are correct.
I asked about newest Record manual couple years ago. If I am not
mistaken nobody answered me. So I thought that the manual is correct ...
:(

Thank you - Andrei.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:02 PM
To: Liyu, Andrei
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: record field definition and float

Liyu, Andrei wrote:
> 
> For example ao record has (according Record manual) DRVH as float. But
> my client returned double. 
> 	I looked into code. Code has DRVH as double. It means record
> manual has mistakes.

If you look at the date and EPICS version number on your Record 
Reference Manual, you'll probably see that it dates back to 1998 and 
EPICS R3.13.  Unfortunately it has not been kept up to date, and there 
have been many changes to the record fields since then.  No one seems 
willing to update it, and the core developers are all too busy to do it 
themselves.

- Andrew
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