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It typically takes 1 day (week?) to go through the information on this page. Take your time to go through the details, and follow the links for more information. EPICS is a large and complex toolkit, and this page intends to give you only the most basic understanding of how common variables work. Much more in-depth training on IOC development and fun with records is available to those who need it. You are ready for the next topic Operator Interface Tools when you have a working softIoc database and a general understanding of what the records are doing. |
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For this section, and the following Operator Interface Tools, you will copy a set of example files into your own directory to follow along.
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Step 3: Use command line tools to read and write to your PVs
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You will only be able to see the PVs while the IOC shell is running by exiting in the step above you will not be able to find the PVs During this project your IOC shell is only running while you have the softIoc program running, by closing or exiting it you will not be able to find the PVs because the IOC shell is no longer running. In order to see the PVs you will need to open another cmd with the original still in the IOC shell. |
EPICS comes with simple command line tools to interact with your PVs.
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