Experimental Physics and
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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:18:20 -0600

Hi David,

On Wednesday 03 December 2008 11:08:30 David Dudley wrote:
> I see references to various records in the 3.14 wiki that are not a part of
> base.
>
> The ones I've seen so far are Pulse Counter, Pulse Delay, Pulse Train, and
> Transform.  There are probably more, but the Pulse ones in particular
> interested me for a project coming up.
>
> Transform, I see if a soft module extension, but where do I find the Pulse
> records?  Also, wouldn't it kinda make sense to at least indicate in the
> wiki page where the module is available from (perhaps not exact location,
> but "a part of base", or "from modules/soft", or something)?

The Pulse* records are rather hardware-specific; they were written for the 
(now probably obsolete) Mizar MZ-8310 VME board, and are included in the 
support for that module at
	http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/timing/mizar/index.html

I don't particularly like the Record Reference Manual including record types 
that are not part of the official Base release, but there is no effort 
available to make the sweeping revisions that are really needed to clean it 
up.  Tim Mooney added the Transform and sCalcout record types in 2006.  The 
Pulse* record type documentation should definitely be removed from the Wiki.

If you would like an account for the wiki I would be *very* happy to give you 
one, user-editing being a major purpose of such things...

- Andrew
-- 
Talk is cheap. Show me the code. -- Linus Torvalds

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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