Operator Messages

Control Characters

Control-Out Character

This option gives the user the opportunity to set the character output as the control-out character if required by your control (normally (). Some controls require that operator comments be enclosed in control-out/control-in characters. See the postprocessor command DISPLAY. The actual value stored in the option file will be the ASCII character's decimal value. Equivalent postprocessor command:

• PLABEL/OPTION,14,TO,40 $$ The default is decimal ASCII value for (.

Control-Out Alias

Alias for the control out character. Enter the string you wish to be output for every occurrence of the control out character. You may enter up to eight ASCII characters. Be sure to see PLABEL option 63 if you need blank characters to be part of the alias.

Control-In Character

This option gives the user the opportunity to set the character output as the control-in character if required by your control (normally )). Some controls require that operator comments be enclosed in control-out/control-in characters. See the postprocessor command DISPLAY. The actual value stored in the option file will be the ASCII character's decimal value. Equivalent postprocessor command:

• PLABEL/OPTION,15,TO,41 $$ The default is decimal ASCII value for ).

Control-In Alias

Alias for the control in character. Enter the string you wish to be output for every occurrence of the control in character. You may enter up to eight ASCII characters. Be sure to see PLABEL option 63 if you need blank characters to be part of the alias.

Max Characters Per Block

This specifies the maximum number of characters that can be output in a block.

Output operator messages to tape file

This feature sets the postprocessor to output operator messages as programmed in PPRINT postprocessor commands in the machine control data file. It is equivalent to using the postprocessor command:

• DISPLY/ON

Retain spaces in INSERT statements

This option controls whether the postprocessor will suppress blanks in INSERT statements. See the postprocessor command INSERT for more information. Equivalent postprocessor commands:

• PLABEL/OPTION,39,TO,0 $$ Suppress blanks from INSERT statement (default).

• PLABEL/OPTION,39,TO,1 $$ Allow blanks from INSERT statement to be output.

Use Continuation Character for INSERT

Upon checking this box, a field will be displayed allowing for the input of a special character which can be specified as the continuation character for the INSERT statements. This will allow the programmer to create output blocks longer that 120 characters. By using the Continuation Character in the INSERT statement the post will merge the continued INSERT with the next block of output. You could then use multiple INSERT statements to create a block of output data to any desired length. This is normally used when writing FIL routine to create output blocks. The continuation character must be the final character in the INSERT statement prior to the EOB character.

Example:

$$ Continuation character is \

$$ EOB Character is $

INSERT/'G01 \$'

INSERT/' X10.00 \$'

INSERT/' Y20.00 \$'

INSERT/' Z30.00 \$/

INSERT/' F1000.0 $'

Output Block: N001 G01 X10.00 Y20.00 Z30.00 F1000.0

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