Poll2 Commands

This page give a description of the various commands available in poll2.

• run - Start data acquisition and start recording data to disk
• stop - Stop data acqusition and stop recording data to disk
• startacq (startvme) - Start data acquisition
• stopacq (stopvme) - Stop data acquisition
• timedrun - Run for the specified number of seconds
• acq (shm) - Run in "shared-memory" mode
• spill (hup) - Force dump of current spill
• prefix [name] - Set the output filename prefix (default='run_#.ldf')
• fdir [path] - Set the output file directory (default='./')
• title [runTitle] - Set the title of the current run (default='PIXIE Data File)
• runnum [number] - Set the number of the current run (default=0)
• oform [0|1|2] - Set the format of the output file (default=0)
• reboot - Reboot PIXIE crate
• stats [time] - Set the time delay between statistics dumps (default=-1)
• mca [root|damm] [time] [filename] - Use MCA to record data for debugging purposes
• dump [filename] - Dump pixie settings to file (default='Fallback.set')
• pread - Read parameters from individual PIXIE channels
• pmread - Read parameters from PIXIE modules
• pwrite - Write parameters to individual PIXIE channels
• pmwrite - Write parameters to PIXIE modules
• adjust_offsets - Adjusts the baselines of a pixie module
• find_tau - Finds the decay constant for an active pixie channel
• toggle - Toggle any of the 19 CHANNEL_CSRA bits for a pixie channel
• toggle_bit - Toggle any bit of any parameter of 32 bits or less
• csr_test - Output the CSRA parameters for a given integer
• bit_test <num_bits> - Display active bits in a given integer up to 32 bits long
• get_traces [threshold] - Get traces for all channels in a specified module
• status - Display system status information
• thresh [threshold] - Modify or display the current polling threshold.
• debug - Toggle debug mode flag (default=false)
• quiet - Toggle quiet mode flag (default=false)
• quit - Close the program
• help (h) - Display this dialogue
• version (v) - Display Poll2 version information