1 INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 PURPOSE 1

1.2 SCOPE 1

1.3 REFERENCE DOCUMENTS 1

1.4 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 1

1.5 GLOSSARY 1

1.6 STYLISTIC CONVENTIONS 2

1.7 PROBLEM REPORTING / CHANGE REQUEST 2

2 USER'S GUIDE 3

2.1 OVERVIEW 3

2.2 SCRIPTING LANGUAGE SYNTAX 4

2.2.1 Basic rules 4

2.2.2 Substitution 4

2.2.3 Quoting 5

2.2.4 Potential pitfalls 5

2.3 SEQUENCER SHELL COMPONENTS 7

2.3.1 CCS Environment Interface 8

2.3.2 CCS Message System Interface 8

2.3.3 CCS On-line Database Interface 10

2.3.4 CCS Logging System Interface 10

2.3.5 CCS Error System Interface 11

2.3.6 CCS Scan System Interface 11

2.3.7 CCS Event Handling 11

2.3.8 Error handling 12

2.3.9 OSLX 12

2.3.10 Convenience procedures 12

2.3.11 Debugging help 13

2.4 RUNNING THE SEQUENCER SHELLS 14

2.4.1 Before you start 14

2.4.2 Starting up 16

2.4.3 Example Sequencer script 18

2.4.4 Subprocesses 20

2.5 THE SEQUENCER AS AN IMBEDDABLE INTERPRETER 21

2.6 DYNAMICALLY LOADABLE EXTENSIONS 21

2.6.1 Initialization of a loadable extension 21

2.6.2 Compiling loadable extensions 22

2.6.3 Loading a package 22

2.6.4 Examples from the Sequencer 23

2.7 SEQUENCER VARIABLES 23

2.8 INTERNET RESOURCES ON TCL/TK 25

3 INSTALLATION 27

3.1 REQUIREMENTS 27

3.2 COMPILATION AND INSTALLATION OF THE SEQUENCER 28

3.3 VERIFICATION 29

4 REFERENCE 31

5 PUBLIC INTERFACE FILE 149

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