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<h1>General SICS commands</h1>
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This section describes general SICS concepts and SICS commands available to all instruments.</p>
<h2>Chapter Overview</h2>
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<li> This chapter starts with an overview of some <a href="basic.htm">basic</a> SICS concepts.
<li> Than there are <a href="system.htm">system</a> commands for closing the server, requesting status information etc.
<li> The <a href="token.htm">Token command</a>is for managing control access to
the SICS server.
<li> A few commands <a href="config.htm">change</a> user rights, set output files and the like.
<li> SICS has a built in <a href="macro.htm">macro</a> facility which is accessible through a few commands.
<li> Then there is the <a href="buffer.htm">famous</a> LNS-R&#252;nbuffer system.
<li> The new <a href="exeman.htm">batch file</a> processing system.
<li> Motors and parameters need to be <a href="drive.htm">drive</a>n.
<li> SICS has a facility to <a href=optimise.htm>optimise</a> a peak with respect to several
parameters.
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SICS has various ways (to many!) to log the I/O from and to an
instrument control server. This has devolped over time and may need a
cleanup.
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<li>There exists a server log where all I/O and internal
messages is written to automatically. As this can get quite large the
files
for this
are cyclically reused. This is log aimed at debugging problems with
the SICS server.
<li> Logging of client output to a file can be performed with the <a
href=logbook.htm>LogBook</a> command. This is a wrapper around the
config file command. This is obsolete.
<li>Then there is a <a
href="commandlog.htm">commandlog </a> which writes all I/O coming from
clients with user or manager privilege. These log files are kept under
/home/INSTRUMENT/log for each day. With this log file all important
operations on an instrument can be reconstructed. This gets written
automatically without user intervention.
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