| ID | Date | Author  | Topic | Subject | Text |  | 
| 39 | 21 Sep 2004 | Stefan Ritt |  | ODB-EPICS gateway | The easiest way to achieve this is to write a new class driver, probably derived
 from the multi.c class driver. One has just
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| 147 | 29 Sep 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Info | Increased number of clients in midas.h, important! | Due to some request several limitations like the maximal number of clients to the ODB
 have
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| 148 | 03 Oct 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Info | Introduction of new transition scheme | A new transition scheme has been implemented and committed. Previously, one had the
 possibility to register for PRE/POST transitions,
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| 151 | 03 Oct 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Info | Increased number of clients in midas.h, important! | > Stefan, to avoid confusion from crashes caused by incompatible ODBs would it be possible
 to add a "version number" to ODB,
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| 153 | 04 Oct 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Info | Increased number of clients in midas.h, important! | > Right. We cannot fix the past, but we should fix the future. BTW, "do not mix versions"
 is hard to enforce and mismatches did, do
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| 157 | 13 Oct 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Bug Report | db_paste: found string exceeding MAX_STRING_LENGTH | Can you attach 
 /twist/data_onl/current/run17548.odb
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| 159 | 13 Oct 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Bug Report | silly odbedit "rename Display xxx/yyy" | > odbedit command "rename Display xxx/yyy" creates a key named "xxx/yyy" (yes,
 > with a slash in the name) and this key
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| 161 | 13 Oct 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Suggestion | No al_clear_alarm()? | > We have al_trigger_alarm(), but no matching al_clear_alarm(), and I need it to
 > clear my alarm once the alarm condition
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| 167 | 14 Oct 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Bug Report | TWIST upgrade bombed... | Agree. 
 Once you did the modification, please check
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| 173 | 04 Nov 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Forum | Frontend code and the ODB | Hi Jan, 
 I usually keep under /Experiment/Run Parameters
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| 182 | 15 Dec 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Info | Commit local TWIST modifications | > - system.c: do not chdir("/") in ss_daemon_init()- it prevents us from ever
 >   getting core dumps from midas daemons.
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| 183 | 15 Dec 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Forum | Frontend index | > What is the api call to determine the index of the frontend when specifying the
 > -i parameter during execution of the frontend?
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| 188 | 22 Dec 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Forum | cm_msg | > Could someone please explain to me how cm_msg, cm_msg1, etc. all work.  The
 > documentation is very terse.
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| 189 | 22 Dec 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Suggestion | What to do with invalid data in the history system? | Dealing with the NaN's in the history system in the past week, a question came
 up at PSI about how to deal with invalid
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| 190 | 23 Dec 2004 | Stefan Ritt | Suggestion | What to do with invalid data in the history system? | I preliminary implemented NaNs into the history system. It works such that if a
 device driver returns a read error status,
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| 194 | 21 Jan 2005 | Stefan Ritt | Bug Report | Persistency problem with h1_book() & co | > I can't get onto cvs@midas.psi.ch right now
 > (cvs update
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| 195 | 25 Jan 2005 | Stefan Ritt | Bug Report | Persistency problem with h1_book() & co | > > I can't get onto cvs@midas.psi.ch right now
 > > (cvs update
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| 199 | 26 Jan 2005 | Stefan Ritt | Bug Report | histograms not saved in replay mode | > is there a reason why histograms are not saved after a replay?
 >
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| 201 | 04 Mar 2005 | Stefan Ritt | Info | Real-Time 2005 Conference in Stockholm | Dear Midas users, 
 may I kindly invite you present your work
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| 202 | 24 Mar 2005 | Stefan Ritt | Info | ODB dump format switched to XML | Dear midas users, 
 I have changed the ODB dump format to XML.
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