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Rod, "system" command works for me by default on EPICS 3.14.12.2 (Windows7, x86).

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Eric Norum <[email protected]> wrote:

The system command was made optional since (a) it's not available on vxWorks and RTEMS and (b) the developers felt that it had all sorts of possibilities for causing strange behaviour, especially for new EPICS developers/users.

On Dec 19, 2012, at 8:32 AM, "J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/19/12 10:12 AM, Mark Rivers wrote:
>> When I build Linux IOCs with 3.14.12.2 I don't see the "system" command with "help", and it gives me an error if I type it:
>>
>> epics> help system
>>
>> epics> system ls
>> Command system not found.
>
> Hi, Mark.
>
> Hmm...same for me.
>
> I see that EPICS Base builds system.dbd.  Including this in my IOC makes
> the "system" command available.  So, it would seem that either
> system.dbd should be included in base.dbd, or the documentation needs to
> be updated to state that the "system" command is only available if
> system.dbd is included in the IOC.
>
> Lewis

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