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Kinetic Systems CAMAC Softwareconfig file:CA_KSC = device_nameedconf interfaces screen:CAMAC DEVICE ADDR MODE TYPEYES /dev/rcamac Kinetic Systems CAMAC DriverKinetic Systems sells software interfaces for some of their CAMAC controllers onsome UNIX platforms. Presently, only the package for the 3929 SCSI-to-CAMAC controlleron the HP700 platform has been used with spec. Touse the Kinetic Systemssoftware, the location of the their object module must be given in response to the"KSC 3929 SCSI-CAMAC file location" query when running the Install program.(Note, however, there is no reason to use the rather expensive KSC software for the3929 on the HP platform as CSS provides bundled support.)GPIB Controller sspec works with a variety of GPIB controllers as described below. (In addition, theKinetic Systems 3388 CAMAC-to-GPIB controller is available.) Up to four GPIB controllerscan be configured simultaneously.On platforms that implement the System V interprocess communications (IPC)semaphore and shared-memory system calls, more than one spec process can share asingle GPIB controller. For those systems, each spec must have the shared versionof the GPIB controller selected. In the config file, a _L is appended to the module keyword to indicate the shared version. If multiple GPIB controllers are configured, thecontroller unit number of the shared controller must be the same in each version ofspec.spec uses the GPIB controllers at board (as opposed to device) level, which makes itunlikely that other programs can use a GPIB controller while spec is using it.INTERIM WORK-IN-PROGRESS (8/16/01) NOT FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION HARDWARE REFERENCE 219