[Alibava-general] New version of the Alibava DAQ code

[Carlos L. <Car...@if...>]

Dear all,

I have released a new version of the alibava DAQ program, alibava-gui.
You can find the source code here:

http://alibava.sourceforge.net

by clicking in on Download alibava files and downloading 

alibava-0.1.6-3.tar.gz

To compile and install:
1) tar zxf alibava-0.1.5-3.tar.gz
2) cd alibava-0.1.6-3
3) configure
4) make 
5) make install

To do fancier things look at INSTALL after step 2). 
You will find a help file in the doc folder after step 2)

The new version has a number of internal fixes that try to avoid a
problem seen in several places in which the linux kernel "unplugs" the
alibava module in the middle of a long run. I am not certain that this
is fixed (probably not), but I have bitten records on run durations (>50
hours)...

The new program also allows to load plugins to interact with the DAQ
process. See the manual in the doc folder. This is useful for laser runs
if you want to move the laser from one channel to the next during the
same run, for instance, or to scan the laser pulse amplitude, etc...

The data format has changed slightly to allow user defined data blocks
and the AsciiRoot class has also been modified so that the end user can
create his/her own class inheriting from AsciiRoot to decode those data
blocks.

As a side effect, sin_preguntas know has yet another parameter, which is
a pointer to an AsciiRoot-like object. 

Henry's macros are incorporated into the  root macros.

The manual has been extended to, hopefully, describe the new changes and
how to write the new plugins.

Regards,

Carlos

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