 31 Aug 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , mlogger crash if using mserver.
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Our users keep making a simple mistake- they set MIDAS_SERVER_HOST in their
environement. Most midas programs do not mind this- they go through the
mserver, inefficient but benign- except for the mlogger, which dumps core
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 07 Sep 2004, Stefan Ritt, , mlogger crash if using mserver.
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I trapped myself into that problem recently so it's the right time to fix it (;-).
We have two options:
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15 Sep 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , mlogger crash if using mserver.
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> I trapped myself into that problem recently so it's the right time to fix it (;-).
> We have two options:
> a) Make the logger work remotely, even if it's suboptimal and
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09 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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Starting from midas version 1.9.4 on, the environment variable 'MIDASSYS'
should be defined and point to the installation directory of midas. The
purpose of that is that add-on packages (like the upcoming ROME system) can
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09 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> Starting from midas version 1.9.4 on, the environment variable 'MIDASSYS'
> should be defined and point to the installation directory of midas. The
> purpose of that is that add-on packages (like the upcoming ROME system) can
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09 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> Here's my suggestion
> MIDASSYS=/opt/midas-1.9.4 (for example)
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09 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> I guess we should follow the "standard" as much as possible. MIDASSYS was inspired by
> ROOTSYS. Now where do people usually install ROOT? Is it /opt/root-x.x.x or something
> else. Some years ago (when I did the last time some linux administration) optional
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09 Jul 2004, John M O'Donnell, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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For a long time the "de facto" standard was to spread a package around in many
directories under /usr/local. This proved to be a bad idea, as removing the
package
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12 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> With POSIX there is a written standard, which says that each pacakge goes in
> it's own
> directory under /opt. eg. /opt/midas. Each package gets to define it's own
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20 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> > Starting from midas version 1.9.4 on, the environment variable 'MIDASSYS' ...
> 2. What will the entire structure tree look like?
>
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21 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Introduction of environment variable MIDASSYS
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> Where should MIDAS be installed?
I personally don't have any preference, as long as it's in accordance with "the standard"
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05 Dec 2003, Konstantin Olchanski, , HOWTO setup MIDAS ROOT tree analysis
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> root -l
root> TFile *f = new TFile("run00064.root")
root> TTree *t = f->Get("Trigger")
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20 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , HOWTO setup MIDAS ROOT tree analysis
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Updating the instructions to ROOT version 3.10.2. Example is from TRIUMF-KOPIO
tree analysis.
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05 Dec 2003, Konstantin Olchanski, , HOWTO setup MIDAS ROOT tree analysis
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> root -l
root> TFile *f = new TFile("run00064.root")
root> TTree *t = f->Get("Trigger")
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20 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , HOWTO setup MIDAS ROOT tree analysis
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Updating the instructions to ROOT version 3.10.2. Example is from TRIUMF-KOPIO
tree analysis.
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05 Dec 2003, Konstantin Olchanski, , HOWTO setup MIDAS ROOT tree analysis
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> root -l
root> TFile *f = new TFile("run00064.root")
root> TTree *t = f->Get("Trigger")
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20 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , HOWTO setup MIDAS ROOT tree analysis
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Updating the instructions to ROOT version 3.10.2. Example is from TRIUMF-KOPIO
tree analysis.
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14 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , future direction discussion?
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Hi,
I think that rather than spending too much time on where to
put files and how to define the environment - I am guilty of that myself.
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14 Jul 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , future directions discussion?
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Sorry the previous message got mangled:
Hi,
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14 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , future direction discussion?
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Have changed your entry as Non-HTML (easier to reply to...)
Here are some "initial" comments, by no means complete...
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15 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , future direction discussion?
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> > Are we ready for 2.0?
I disapprove of version number inflation. Why not go straight for midas version
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15 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Severe bug in 1.9.4
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Hello midas'ers,
Today I discovered a severe bug in the routine bm_check_buffers(), which
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14 Jul 2004, Exaos Lee, , install problem of Makefile on MacOS X (Darwin 7.4.0, gcc 3.3)
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I have compiled the sources on Darwin 7.4.0 with gcc 3.3. After the compilation of source codes, I
try to execute "gmake install". I got the following message:
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14 Jul 2004, Exaos Lee, , install problem of Makefile on MacOS X (Darwin 7.4.0, gcc 3.3)
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There are not such a file "io.h" inside my MacOS X. In fact, I didn't find any file containing function iopl().
So what is the equivalent function of iopl() under MacOS X? The utility dio should be modified in order to be compiled under Darwin-
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14 Jul 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , install problem of Makefile on MacOS X (Darwin 7.4.0, gcc 3.3)
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> There are not such a file "io.h" inside my MacOS X. In fact, I didn't find any file containing function iopl().
> So what is the equivalent function of iopl() under MacOS X? The utility dio should be modified in order to be compiled under Darwin-
> gcc platform.
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09 Jul 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Version 1.9.4 released today
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Version 1.9.4 of midas has been released today. It is mainly a maintenance
update, for all the little things which have been fixed since the last
release, and does not contain major new functionality. |
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30 Jun 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , mvme167 problems
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Hi,
I am really puzzled: I am running the very same as far as sources
are concerned (Dec 12, 2003 snapsot) midas frontend (miniexp + camacnul)
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30 Jun 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , mvme167 problems
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A followup: I traced back the problem to version 1.9.2.
Version 1.9.1 does not have this problem but 1.9.2 does.
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21 Jun 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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Is the midas CVS server set-up so that I can pull the newest
version off the CVS server?
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21 Jun 2004, Pierre-André Amaudruz, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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> Is the midas CVS server set-up so that I can pull the newest
> version off the CVS server?
>
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22 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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> In the Midas doc under "Quick Start"
> http://midas.triumf.ca/doc/html/quickstart.html
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29 Jun 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , FAQ: anonymous cvs access?
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> Is the midas CVS server set-up so that I can pull the newest
> version off the CVS server?
>
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22 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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I add the following to makefile and try to treat Darwin as FreeBSD/Linux.
But I failed.
============
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22 Jun 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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The current (cvs) version of MIDAS should build on Mac OS X right out of the
box- I fixed all the problems you report back in February(?)- see the macosx
thread in this forum. A few weeks ago I verified that it still compiles on Mac
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23 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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> The current (cvs) version of MIDAS should build on Mac OS X right out of the
> box- I fixed all the problems you report back in February(?)- see the macosx
> thread in this forum. A few weeks ago I verified that it still compiles on Mac
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23 Jun 2004, Stefan Ritt, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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> Thanks a lot. But I cannot checkout module:
> ------------
> 01:52:16: pc2075.psi.ch: Operation timed out
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23 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , How to compile under Darwin-gcc? (MacOS X)
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>
> Should work fine, just tried from outside PSI. Please check again.
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28 Jun 2004, Exaos Lee, , Linking Error: g++ -rpath?
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I cannot checkout from the cvs server. So I download each latest file from the WWW
interface of CVS. While compiling these files, I encountered the following problems:
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28 Jun 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , Linking Error: g++ -rpath?
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> ld: unknown flag: -rpath
> gmake: *** [darwin/bin/mlogger] Error 1
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07 May 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , min(a,b) in mana.c and mlogger.c
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When I compile current cvs-head midas, I get errors about undefined function
min(). I do not think min() is in the list of standard C functions, so
something else should be used instead, like a MIN(a,b) macro. To make life
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07 May 2004, Stefan Ritt, , min(a,b) in mana.c and mlogger.c
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> When I compile current cvs-head midas, I get errors about undefined function
> min(). I do not think min() is in the list of standard C functions, so
> something else should be used instead, like a MIN(a,b) macro. To make life
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21 Jun 2004, Piotr Zolnierczuk, , min(a,b) in mana.c and mlogger.c
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> > When I compile current cvs-head midas, I get errors about undefined function
> > min(). I do not think min() is in the list of standard C functions, so
> > something else should be used instead, like a MIN(a,b) macro. To make life
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06 Jun 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , Makefile: set -rpath
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I commited Makefile bits to set the RPATH on dynamically linked executables
to find libmidas.so and ROOT shared libraries without setting
LD_LIBRARY_PATH , etc. K.O. |
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28 Apr 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , mhttpd "start run" input field length?
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I am setting up a new experiment and I added a "comment" field to "/
Experiment/Edit on start". When I start the run, I see this field, but I
cannot enter anything: the HTML "maxlength" is zero (or 1?). I traced this
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30 Apr 2004, Stefan Ritt, , mhttpd
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> I am setting up a new experiment and I added a "comment" field to "/
> Experiment/Edit on start". When I start the run, I see this field, but I
> cannot enter anything: the HTML "maxlength" is zero (or 1?). I traced this
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30 Mar 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , elog fixes 
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I am about to commit the mhttpd Elog fixes we have been using in TWIST since
about October. The infamous Elog "last N days" problem is fixed, sundry
memory overruns are caught and assert()ed.
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30 Mar 2004, Stefan Ritt, , elog fixes
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Thanks for fixing these long lasting bugs. The code is much cleaner now, please
commit it. |
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10 Mar 2004, Jan Wouters, , Creation of secondary Midas output file.
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Dear Midas Team,
I have run into a problem with Midas and was wondering if you could explain what I
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10 Mar 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Creation of secondary Midas output file.
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Dear Jan,
I had a look at your code. You create a gPhysicsEventHeader array, fill it, and expect the
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11 Mar 2004, Renee Poutissou, , Creation of secondary Midas output file.
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Jan ,
Do you need to log this stage 1 output? If not, you would use the
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19 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , darwin aka macosx changes
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I commited the final bits to make Midas build on Darwin aka macosx.
Here is the summary:
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14 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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While watching "The Wizard of Oz", the greatest movie ever made, I took a shot at building
midas on my macosx computer. After stumbling on a few small and on a few hard problems, I
built almost everything. However, odb does not work- some further debugging is in order.
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14 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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Great, I got already questions about MacOSX support...
Once it's working, you should commit the changes. But take into account that using "//" for
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16 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> Great, I got already questions about MacOSX support...
> Once it's working, you should commit the changes.
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17 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> With the ALIGN8() change ODB works, mhttpd works. ALIGN8 change now commited to cvs, verified that "make all" builds
> on Linux.
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18 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> I would like to keep all OS specific #includes in midasinc.h
No go. Here is the problem:
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19 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> I want this:
>
> mana.c does *not* include sys/mount.h
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19 Jan 2004, Konstantin Olchanski, , First try- midas on darwin/macosx
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> > Simplest solution is to take sys/mount.h out of midasinc.h and include it in system.c
> Agree.
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14 Jan 2004, Razvan Stefan Gornea, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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I am just starting to explore MIDAS, i.e. reading the manual and trying
some examples. For the moment I would like to make a simple frontend that
access a portable multimeter through RS-232 port. I think this could help
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14 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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There is some information at
http://midas.triumf.ca/doc/html/Internal.html#Slow_Control_system
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16 Jan 2004, Razvan Stefan Gornea, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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The multimeter device is indeed to simple to use MIDAS but I am just trying
it as a learning experience. The DAQ system to develop involves VME crates
and general purpose I/O boards. The slow control part, especially accessing
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17 Jan 2004, Stefan Ritt, , Access to hardware in the MIDAS framework
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> The result is strange because the get function is called all the time very
> fast (much faster then the 9 seconds as set in the equipment) and even
> before starting the run (I just put the flag RO_RUNNING).
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