Re: [foxboro] ICC to CP disconnect

Kevin Fitzgerrell wrote:
> One other possible cause of the problem is that you had a compound in
> a control station or work volume with the same name as the problem CP,
> and deleted the compound.  As part of the cleanup, deleting a compound
> deletes the /opt/fox/ciocfg/COMPOUNDNAME directory - in this case also
> the /opt/fox/ciocfg/CPLBUG directory with the CP workfiles.  Naming a
> compound with a CP letterbug is illegal but isn't impossible -
> entering a CP letterbug in the choice field in the compound selection
> screen of the ICC will cause the creation of a compound in volwrk with
> the same name as your CP.  I'm not aware of this issue having been
> corrected.
> 
> If you are missing the /opt/fox/ciocfg/CPLBUG directory, or it is
> empty except for an initialized workfile and .O files (they should
> have been recreated as initial files when you tried ICC on this CP and
> found nothing),  I'd consider this scenario a possibility.

Hah, I had this very same problem when I created an API compound on a 
Windows system, deleted it again and found to my astonishment that the 
ICC had happily deleted the /opt/fox/ciocfg/api directory. Thank you, ICC.

It's rather embarassing if you have to explain to your customer why the 
directory is gone.

Regards,

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