IOC Utilities

There are a number of IOC shell utilities defined in C:\Instrument\Apps\EPICS\support\utilities which can be used in an IOC shell to help startup IOCs.

calc

TODO

stringtest

TODO

stringiftest(resultvar, lhs, operation, rhs)

Defines an environment variables as empty or a comment depending on if lhs is empty. The variables defined are:

• IF<resultsvar> '#' if empty; otherwise ' '
• IFNOT<resultsvar> ' ' if empty; otherwise '#'

parameters

1. resultvar - the basename of the environment variable to set
2. lhs - the string to test
3. operation - set the first bit for verbose mode
4. rhs - does nothing

setIOCName

TODO

getIOCName

TODO

getIOCGroup

TODO

mkdir

TODO