Should we keep the stringin versions of APPDIR and ST_SCRIPT?

[simon-ess]

We currently keep three records to keep track of the startup script location and the aplication directory, which split the full path into parts (and not necessarily enough for that even...).

Do we need to keep these old record types?

[anjohnson]

Is there support for the lsi (long string input) record type yet? I don't see any, but that record type has been available in 3.15 since 2012. I would recommend using that instead of waveform records for anything which is a string. However the devIocStatsString.c support currently has several more kinds of inputs than the devIocStatsWaveform.c does:

devIocStatsString.c:    {"startup_script_1", statsSScript1, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"startup_script_2", statsSScript2, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"bootline_1", statsBootline1, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"bootline_2", statsBootline2, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"bootline_3", statsBootline3, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"bootline_4", statsBootline4, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"bootline_5", statsBootline5, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"bootline_6", statsBootline6, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"bsp_rev", statsBSPRev, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"kernel_ver", statsKernelVer, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"epics_ver", statsEPICSVer, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"engineer", statsEngineer, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"location", statsLocation, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"up_time", statsUpTime, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"hostname", statsHostName, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"pwd1", statsPwd1, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsString.c:    {"pwd2", statsPwd2, STATIC_TYPE},

devIocStatsWaveform.c:    {"startup_script", statsSScript, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsWaveform.c:    {"bootline", statsBootline, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsWaveform.c:    {"epics_ver", statsEPICSVer, STATIC_TYPE},
devIocStatsWaveform.c:    {"pwd", statsPwd, STATIC_TYPE},

I don't see anything there at all for APPDIR...