Using e852 software tools with e891 data

All of these tools take the form of unix commands, accepting options delineated with the standard unix "-". One of the options common to all is the "-h" option, which gives help in the form of a brief listing of all the command options recognized by that command. Generally, once a very casual familiarity with these commands is developed, this help listing is all that is needed to know how to correctly use the command.

tapeNo -- Labelling an 8mm tape for writing by DAQ

This explains how to run tapeNo, which is used to label each tape before DAQ writes to it.

tapedb -- Displaying runs written to a labelled tape

This explains how to display the runs which were written to the specified, labelled tape, by looking the information up in a database, which DAQ updates each time a run is written to tape.

seekItape -- Positioning a tape at a specified run on that tape.

This explains how to run seekItape, which seeks a specified run on a tape and positions the tape there. This should be used before dd is used to copy a run from a tape.

seekItape.old -- Displaying each run on a tape

This explains how to run seekItape.old, which, like seekItape, seeks a specified run on a tape and positions the tape there, but is not so clever and doesn't rapidly skip over filemarks, and thus "sees" each run on the tape and prints out each time it sees a run.

dd -- Copying data from a tape to a file (not an E852 product; this is described here for completness)

This explains how to run dd, which copies runs from tape to a file.

Dispatcher -- Controlling DAQ from an existing session

This explains how to run Dispatcher, which principly transmits data to requesting clients.

feedFromFile -- Feeding data from a file or tape to the Dispatcher

This explains how to run feedFromFile, which principly transmits data to requesting clients.

There are a few minor apparent inconsistancies in some of these commands and there options, noted here: