Re: [Owfs-developers] MAN pages for owread / owwrite links

2007-06-29 Thread Paul Alfille
I'll fix the link. owread/owwrite have no error reporting themselves. You can get the server to report errors, either through reading it's statistics (owread -s 4304 /statistics/whatever) or by having it log to the console. I'll soon be releasing owtap, a program that sits between a client and o

[Owfs-developers] MAN pages for owread / owwrite links

2007-06-29 Thread Rob Conway
I am looking for information on owread/write and if owserver provides for an error log. I only use owserver with owread/owwrite in a bash script so was interested if there is somewhere an error log file (besides what is reported from the usb adapter parameters.) I was trying to get some more i

Re: [Owfs-developers] ownet/python crashing sporadically in connection.py

2007-06-29 Thread Paul Alfille
Hi Jerry, We certainly could use option negotiation (although even that would require some backwards compatibility.) We also have had version numbers included in the owserver protocol since the start -- although there hasn't been a need to progress beyond version 0. We faced this issue thrice b

Re: [Owfs-developers] ownet/python crashing sporadically in connection.py

2007-06-29 Thread Jerry Scharf
Paul Alfille wrote: > Hmm... > > owlib is written in C, and needs a fixed data size (string size) for > floating point output. I arbitrarily used 12 characters and the %g > printf format to be most general. > > Currently type (floating point, integer...) and certainly precision > aren't part of

Re: [Owfs-developers] ownet/python crashing sporadically in connection.py

2007-06-29 Thread Paul Alfille
Hmm... owlib is written in C, and needs a fixed data size (string size) for floating point output. I arbitrarily used 12 characters and the %g printf format to be most general. Currently type (floating point, integer...) and certainly precision aren't part of the ownet messages. If we really wan