Among the things I discovered while investigating e2sr is that our
edb.def file was improperly formatted. This resulted in the default
field values not being used. I have corrected this using a program
called edb_filter which is part of EPICS extensions.
The file $EPICS/capfast/edb.def has been corrected. The old version is
available as $EPICS/capfast/edb.def.bak5 if you need it for some reason.
There should be no effect on existing applications since the old edif2sr
program doesn't notice the change. (It never used the default values!)
Only new applications or those converted to use e2sr will notice a
change. If you have a customized edb.def file to support custom records,
the edb_filter program is available in $EPICS/appSRcebaf/tools. This
program takes the old edb.def file on standard input and writes the
corrected format to standard out. Running it multiple times on the same
file is ok.
--Brian Bevins