Cascade Driver for Hilscher Fieldbus CIF Cards: Version 4.1
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# describeBuffer

describeBuffer -- describes the segments of a buffer.

## Synopsis

    (describeBuffer card_id buffer)

## Parameters

`card_id`

  The id of the card.

`buffer`

  The id of the buffer.

## Returns

A list of the block attributes associated with the specified block, formatted as follows:

        (describeBuffer card_id buffer seg_attrib0 ... seg_attribN)

where a segment attribute description is formatted as:

        (type read_write_mode offset length )

If the `card_id` or `buffer` are invalid, then an error is returned as:

        (error error_string)

## Description

This command requests a description of the segments defined for a specified buffer. It is typically sent as a command and not used in the configuration file.

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