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Overwritting a record field using '*'

This example shows how to use the record type "*" to set/overwrite a field of a record already defined. That can be useful when you are working with records from a module and want to change any of the fields already defined or set some field that was not originally defined.

What is needed to run this example

EPICS base built.

How to use this example

To test this example, you can start the ioc using this command:

$EPICS_BIN/softIocPVA example1.cmd

And then on a different terminal with , you can do like that:

$EPICS_BIN/caget MYRECORD.DRVL
# you should get the value 0
$EPICS_BIN/caget MYRECORD.DRVH
# you should get the value 10

Files

• example1_1.db
• example1_2.db
• example1.cmd