New table software

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

Dear folks,
I just put a new version of the table record and related software in the
EPICS Software Distribution.
(http://www.aps.anl.gov/xfd/SoftDist/Welcome.html#Custom_EPICS)

Tim Mooney

Here are excerpts from tableRecord.README:
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Table record version 4.2


New fields (since v3.0):
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GEOM	specify table geometry: 'SRI' (0) or 'GEOCARS' (1)
	see table_setup_SRI.adl and table_setup_GEOCARS.adl for pictures
	of these geometries.
LX21	(SRI geometry only) describes the X position of pivot point M2.
	LX21 is the ratio (M2-M0)x / (M1-M0)x, where (M2-M0)x is the
	x projection of the vector from M2 to M0.
UH*	(E.g., UHAX, UHAY, ...) User limits for virtual motions.  These
UL*	fields restrict the values calculated from motor limits.

Other news:
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Fixed errors in inverse-matrix (real motors/limits to virtual motors/limits)

If you have version 3.6 or later of the transform record [not yet released],
the table database included here can be run with fewer than six motors.
The following dbLoadRecords() command supports a five-degree-of-freedom table
by assigning Z motions to the nonexistent motor record xxx:junk.

dbLoadRecords('table.db','P=xxx:,Q=Tbl1,T=tbl1,M0X=m1,M0Y=m2,M1Y=m3,M2X=m4,M2Y=m5,M2Z=junk')


Tim Mooney
2/5/98