Contents

• Introduction
• Using CVS for source code control
  • Accessing SSRL's CVS repository
  • CVS software projects
  • CVS management policies
  • CVS naming conventions for tags and branches
  
  
• Installation
  • Installing the libraries
  • Installing DCSS
  • Configuring DCSS
  • Installing and configuring the hardware simulator
  • Installing DHS
  • Installing the detector simulator
  • Installing BLU-ICE
  • The mysql database
  
  
• Maintaining the database.dat file
  • Dumping the database.dat file
  • Recreating the database.dat file
  • Format of the database.dat file
  
  
• Writing Scripted Devices and Operations
  • General DCS Scripting Commands
  • Scripted Device Family Relationships
  • Exception Handling
  
  
• Adding Scripts to the Scripting Engine
  • Adding New Scripted Devices
  • Adding New Scripted Operations
  
  
• Example scripts
  • Testing the diffractometer
  • The energy device on different beam lines
  
  
• The DCS Protocol
  • The DCS Message Structure
  • Connection Protocol
  • Gui to Server Messages (gtos)
  • Hardware to Server Messages (htos)
  • Server To GUI Client Messages (stog)
  • Server To Hardware Messages (stoh)
  
  
• Example code listings in ASCII
• Document Version Information
  • Change history