EPICS 3.13 application software distribution

[mooney@aps.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)]

Dear folks,

I've finally put some promised EPICS R3.13-compatible application
software in the EPICS Software Distribution's custom software section
http://www.aps.anl.gov/xfd/WWW/xfd/SoftDist/Welcome.html#Custom_EPICS
The tar file includes the following records, device support, drivers,
etc.:

	motor		stepmotor, with device and driver support for Oregon
			Microsystems and Highland Technology controllers
	scaler		scalers, with device support for the Joerger VSC8
			and VSC16
	scanparm	scan parameters for use with the scan record
	table		6-degree-of-freedom optical table
	transform	sort of an array of 16 calc records, with output links
	serial		Mark Rivers' generic serial record, with device support
			for hideos-supported Industry Pack modules (IP-Octal*)
	vme		Mark Rivers' generic vme record
	gpib		Mark Rivers' generic GPIB record, with device support
			for GPIB devices supported by the standard EPICS GPIB
			driver
	mca		Mark Rivers' support for Canberra AIM multichannel
			analyzer

	drvVaroc	Karen Coulter's (and others?) support for the ESRF's
			SSI absolute encoder interface board
	autosave/restore	Bob Dalesio's save_restore/dbrestore (i.e.,
				bumpless reboot) software, with some patches
				we've found useful.
	hideos executables	Now hideos IndustryPack support runs on an
				MVME162 under VxWorks (alongside EPICS) as well
				as on a bare MVME162.
	devAiHeidND261	Heidenhain ND261 incremental encoder (RS232)
	dev*HeidAWE1024	Heidenhain AWE1025 encoder interpolator (GPIB)
	dev*StrParm	Hideos serial device support with dct-specified
			string termination, parsing, timeout, etc.
	dev*Elcomat	Moller-Wedel Elcomat autocollimator
	dev*HP10895LaserAxis	Hewlett-Packard laser interferometer
	
	Various hideos device-support modules

There are two versions of the tar file: an unprotected file that contains
the source code described above and a bunch of databases, medm display files,
BURT include files, autosave request files, sample startup files, and docs
	xfdApp_R3.13.0.beta7_unbuilt.tar.gz
and a password-protected file that includes all of the above plus
the latest patched VxWorks 5.2 images for MVME167 and MVME162, some
statically linked extensions for sun4 and solaris, and a prebuilt user
tree
	xfdApp_R3.13.0.beta7.tar.gz
You must have a VxWorks target license (and prove it) to download
xfdApp_R3.13.0.beta7.tar, but you don't need *anything* else to run it.

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Tim Mooney
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition
Advanced Photon Source