PLABELs 1 - 10

Tab Characters

This option gives the user the opportunity to affect the resulting machine control data file by suppression or inclusion of tab or blank characters before each letter address in the file. Equivalent postprocessor commands:

• PLABEL/OPTION,01,TO,0 $$ Do not punch tab or blank characters (default).

• PLABEL/OPTION,01,TO,1 $$ Insert a tab before each register address.

• PLABEL/OPTION,01,TO,2 $$ Insert a blank before each register address.

Verification Print

This option gives the user the opportunity to control the suppression or format of the verification print output. Equivalent postprocessor commands:

• PLABEL/OPTION,02,TO,0 $$ Generate verification print (default).

• PLABEL/OPTION,02,TO,1 $$ Do not generate verification print.

• PLABEL/OPTION,02,TO,2 $$ Generate non-modal verification print.

• PLABEL/OPTION,02,TO,11 $$ Generate non-modal verification print and CL point (xyzijk).

• PLABEL/OPTION,02,TO,12 $$ Generate non-modal verification print and CL point (xyzijk).

Inch/Metric

This option gives the user the opportunity to control the units by which the postprocessor operates. The options include control of whether the postprocessor expects input to be inch or metric, output of inch or metric values and whether the values stored in the option file are in inch or metric values. Equivalent postprocessor commands:

• PLABEL/OPTION,03,TO,1 $$ Inch input / inch output (default).

• PLABEL/OPTION,03,TO,2 $$ Metric input / inch output.

• PLABEL/OPTION,03,TO,3 $$ Metric input / metric output.

• PLABEL/OPTION,03,TO,4 $$ Inch input / metric output.

Page Heading

This option gives the user the opportunity to control whether the postprocessor heading is printed out on each page of the verification print. Equivalent postprocessor commands:

• PLABEL/OPTION,04,TO,0 $$ Print page heading (default).

• PLABEL/OPTION,04,TO,1 $$ Do not print page heading.

Punch Output

This option gives the user the opportunity to affect the format of the machine control data file. The options are to "unpack" the data and output one record for each block or to "pack" the data in the first 72 columns of each file record. The latter case will result in more than one block of machine control data per file record when records are less than 72 characters long and is not recommended for DNC environments. Equivalent postprocessor commands:

• PLABEL/OPTION,05,TO,0 $$ Unpack punch output with one block per line (default).

• PLABEL/OPTION,05,TO,1 $$ Pack punch output into 72 columns.

Warnings

This option gives the user the opportunity to output or suppress warning messages in the verification listing file. Equivalent postprocessor commands:

• PLABEL/OPTION,06,TO,0 $$ Do not suppress warning messages (default).

• PLABEL/OPTION,06,TO,1 $$ Suppress all warning messages.

Man-Read PARTNO

This option gives the user the opportunity to output or suppress the PARTNO information in the machine control data file in a form that when punched in tape is "man readable". Equivalent postprocessor commands:

• PLABEL/OPTION,07,TO,0 $$ Punch man readable PARTNO (default).

• PLABEL/OPTION,07,TO,1 $$ Do not punch man readable PARTNO.

Rewind Stop Code

This option gives the user the opportunity to control suppression or inclusion of a rewind stop code at the beginning/end of the machine control data file. Equivalent postprocessor commands:

• PLABEL/OPTION,08,TO,0 $$ Do not punch rewind stop code at start (default).

• PLABEL/OPTION,08,TO,1 $$ .Punch rewind stop code at the start

• PLABEL/OPTION,08,TO,2 $$ Punch rewind stop code at start and end.

• PLABEL/OPTION,08,TO,3 $$ Punch rewind stop code at end.

EOB Character

This field is to contain the character that will be output at the end of each machine control data file block (usually '$') if it is a requirement of your machine control. Equivalent postprocessor command:

• PLABEL/OPTION,9,TO,36 $$ Decimal ASCII value for $ (default)

Leader Character

This field is to contain the character (usually '>') that will be output for leader/trailer requests. Equivalent postprocessor command:

• PLABEL/OPTION,10,TO,62 $$ Decimal ASCII value for > (default)

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