Automatic script to generate BURT files and EPICS IOC DB files for alarms from a spreadsheet

Yi Qiang <yqiang@jlab.org>

csv: folder to store spreadsheets containing alarm thresholds, name should alawys be in format of alarm_system.csv

gen.pl: perl script to generate BURT and DB files, to use it run gen.pl system
        it will automatically generate the following files:
        1. BURT REQ file
        2. BURT snap files, one for new settings, one for disable
        3. EPICS IOC DB file

db: folder to store EPICS IOC DB files for alarms dynamically associated with other PVs, one needs to manually copy them to corresponding IOC directories.

REQS: folder to store BURT REQ files

restore_alarm.pl: perl script to load alarm settings from a snap file

save_alarm.pl: perl script to save alarm settings to a snap file