Re: [foxboro] Printing the contents of a calc block
- From: stan <stanb@xxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:00:14 -0500
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 08:29:41AM -0600, Winston Jenks wrote:
>
> Stan,
>
> I think a little icc script would do the trick for you. I think the guys
> at FeedForward have some nice tools for remote administration. If not,
> then you could hook up the icc driver to an IP port with inetd, then use
> some Perl (or whatever) to send a few lines of icc driver commands to that
> port. Voila magically your CALC block steps come back. I messed around
> with this a while ago when the Calc Block Compiler was getting started.
>
> Or (duh), forget the networking and pump this to
> /opt/fox/ciocfg/api/iccdrvr.tsk
>
> OPEN MYAW51 READ getcalcs
> GET MYCOMPND:MYBLOCK
> CLOSE
> EXIT
>
> and your calc block steps come back.
>
> You have to change MYAW51, MYCOMPND, and MYBLOCK to the name of your AW,
> compound and block. You can also put multiple GET commands between the
> OPEN and CLOSE.
>
>
>
>
> >Is there a way I can print the contents (that is the steps) of a calc block
> >from the shell command line? Failing that is there a way to invoke the
> >control configurator itself from the shell, given that I have a working X
> >server on the other end of the ssh session?
>
Cool, just what I was looking for. Looks like if I write a little shell
script wrapper, this can be generic.
Given that is there a place in the filesystem that I can look for the
existence of CALC block. I could then make the script slightly fancier, and
get a documentation toll for all the calc blcks on a node.
Thanks, again.
--
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neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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