man8/SCtask

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Name

SCtask - CAMAC Status Control service

Synopsis

SCtask <argument list>

Description

Status Control I/O service for CAMAC.

This program supports Kinetic Systems KSC3072, KSC3074 and KSC3075 CAMAC modules.

It also supports CAMAC modules from other manufacturers which use F16 and A0-A15 as CAMAC function codes and map the module bits directly into the CAMAC I/O register.

Arguments

Argument processing is done using Unix long argument syntax

The values of all the parameters listed here (whether or not they were supplied on the command line) are printed on stderr when the program starts.

--dbman_host <hn>

The host where dbman is running. If this argument is not supplied the default is "localhost".
--dev <path>

The device path to open. If this argument is not supplied the default is "/dev/camac"
--drv <drv>

The driver key. If this argument is not supplied the default is "CAMAC".
--cmin <C>

The minimum crate number. If this argument is not supplied the default is "1".
--cmax <C>

The maximum crate number. If this argument is not supplied the default is "99".
--log_flag <log>

If this argument has the value bad I/O transactions with bad status will be logged each time the status changes.
If this argument has the value all I/O transactions are logged each time the value OR the status changes.

Device Types used by this program

Dev3072
Dev3074
Dev3075

Examples

#
# this example services crates 1 thru 4
# dbman is running on the same host
#
SCtask -cmin 1 -cmax 4

Manual page revision

$Id: SCtask.8,v 1.7 2007/07/12 15:45:42 mcnamer Exp $

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