Re: Submission for Power Supplies and Environmental Sensors

throop@dg-rtp.dg.com (Dean D. Throop) Wed, 30 September 1992 13:28 UTC

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From: throop@dg-rtp.dg.com
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To: chassismib@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Submission for Power Supplies and Environmental Sensors


> From: Bob Stewart <rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com>
> To: chassismib@cs.utk.edu
> Subject: Submission for Power Supplies and Environmental Sensors
> Message-Id: <9209292325.AA05332@xap.xyplex.com>
> 
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> 
> chasPowerSupplyOutputNominalVoltage OBJECT-TYPE
>     SYNTAX Gauge
>     ACCESS read-only
>     STATUS mandatory
>     DESCRIPTION
>         "In hundredths of a volt, the voltage the output is supposed to 
>         supply, such as -5, +5, +12, -15, etc."
>     ::= { chasPowerSupplyOutputEntry 3 }
> 
A Guage is a positive integer so how to you distinguish -5 from +5?

Dean Throop		throop@dg-rtp.dg.com