man8/PEtask

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Name

PEtask - Perkin Elmer Ion Pump controller I/O service

Synopsis

PEtask <argument list>

Description

Serial I/O service for a Perkin Elmer ion pump power supply.

The program expects to find several refnames PwrSC, PwrSR, CR, VR, and PR under the label.

Arguments

--dbman_host <hn>
The host where dbman is running.

This value defaults to localhost, or the DBMAN_HOST environment variable if defined.

--local <path>
The path name of the device to open for local mode. Local or remote must be specified.
--remote <host>,<socket>
Defines a remote host and socket to connect to. Remote or local mode must be specified.
--label <label>
A label from the database.
--help
Prints a help message.

Argument Usage

Argument processing is done using Unix long argument syntax. The values of all the command line parameters are printed out on stderr when the program starts. Remote and local mode cannot both be specified at the same time. In remote mode the port number is extracted from /etc/services, but can also be a number.

I/O polling rates

Polling is normally performed at 1Hz. Fast polling is not supported.

Examples


PEtask --dbman_host csdev1 --local /dev/com2 --label "IP 02-1"
PEtask --dbman_host csdev1 --remote csdev11,ETSraw1 --label "IP 02-1"

Note that the label will need to be quoted for the shell to treat it as a single argument.

Manual page revision

$Id: PEtask.8,v 1.4 2007/07/17 16:20:46 kitchen Exp $

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