Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hello,

    I'm trying to create IOC for our XGS-600 vacuum gauge controller (Agilent Technologies). It is connected via RS232 serial port and I know the commands I'm going to use.
   This is my first real IOC to built. I read Norum's tutorial how to built Gpib and serial device IOCs and I have several questions:

 Can we use the http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/soft/asyn/R4-9/HowToDoSerial/tutorial.html
tutorial as base for our own IOC? If it is possible than
1) if my device is connected via serial port, should I use the same command as for gpib devices, i.e.
    /base/asyn/bin/linux-x86/makeSupport.pl -t devGpib myDevice

2) If the commands of our device have the following format:

   #0002UHFIG1,end the command ends with "\n". How can we define it in a gpibCmd structure? In a Norum's tutorial it is written as following:

    {&DSET_LO, GPIBWRITE, IB_Q_LOW, NULL, "\377\377\033", 10, 10,
       NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL, "\033"},
 3) In the above mentioned command to what must be changed GPIBWRITE/GPIBREAD in case of RS232 connection?

If anybody had already written an IOC for this controller I'll be very thankful to get advices.

    Thank you in advance,
       Regards,
                   Vahe