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+gen_hipadaba_config.tcl
+Generates hipadaba_configuration.tcl script from the device
+configuration files (eg motor_configuration.tcl) for an instrument.
+
+gen_hipadaba.tcl <deployed to ics hosts>
+This script is sourced by the SICS configuration file at runtime to
+install hipadaba and create the hpaths and hipadaba scripts.
+
+gen_hpdbxml.tcl
+Uses tdom to create the instrument xml file by sourcing the
+hipadaba_configuration.tcl script which executes the the hmake and
+makeHdb<device> commands defined in hpdbxml.tcl.
+
+hipadaba_support.tcl
+Defines the makeHdb<device> commands which create hipadaba nodes along
+with their read and write scripts. The makeHdb<device> commands
+are called by sourcing the hipadaba_configuration.tcl script when SICS 
+is launched.
+
+hpdbxml.tcl
+Defines the hmake and makeHdb<device> commands which create the XML DOM nodes
+for the instrument description file InstXML.xml
+
+ParList.tcl
+Defines lists of parameters for SICS device objects which are useful for a GUI
+client operating on a get/set paradigm.