Chris Walter (the *original* Chris) wrote:
> I think the answer is no. I remember going through gymnastics to get
> around this problem at one point. As I remember this is the reason
> the LIP readout is split into 2 equipments.
>
> I think what happens is that the first time it sees a SECT # that is
> set it executes that code and the leaves the SELREG.
Chris(es),
your message prompted me to look at this further, because I thought
that the answer was "yes"...
I just took a look at the source code on VXMACB (cadriver.pas, case
11) to see what *really* happens; and you're right. The first bit
set that has a corresponding SECT terminates the scanning of the SELREG.
How stupid. How very, very stupid.
It would be trivially easy to change the code for this, but for certain
human roadblocks. So we should do the obvious workaround by breaking
up the SELREG into multiple SELREGs, with one section each. I don't think
we need multiple equipment for this, just multiple SELREGs:
SELREG 2,7,15,0,0
SECT 1
WFD_PATREG 1,30,112
EOS
SELREG 2,7,15,0,0
SECT 11
WFD_PATREG 2,30,123
EOS
This shouldn't affect any useful data, which is all at the beginning of
EQ30.
I don't quite understand how the SELREG nonsense required you to split
the LIP readout, Chris. Could you elaborate?
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