Known Restrictions And Incompatibilities; Alternative To Visual Workbench - Siemens SINUMERIK 840D Operator's Manual

09.01
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Known restrictions and incompatibilities

Text editors AEDIT
and VI (for DOS)
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Alternative to Visual Workbench

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Some ASCII editors - particularly older ones - add control characters to
the text in order to represent special characters (such as accents,
TABs, etc.) from the upper area of the ASCII table.
These characters cause errors during conversion of the text.
This has been encountered with AEDIT and VI (but not XVI). These
editors should therefore not be used for the creation and management
of text source files *.txt.
It is not advisable to use Windows editors because the OP 030
operates with an OEM character set and the editors under Windows
use an ANSI character set. Not all character codes in these two
character sets are the same and it is therefore certain to produce
undesirable results.
If, in spite of this, Windows editors need to be used, a tool supplied at
the same time is required to convert the text file before the text
converter is used.
Call: a2o.exe <ascii.txt>. <oem.txt>
As an alternative to Visual Workbench, you can edit and regenerate the
sources under DOS (DOS box with Win9x) using an editor of your
choice. However, the restriction applies that text files are not to be
edited using a Windows editor because of the different character sets in
Windows and DOS.
If, in spite of this, Windows editors need to be used, a tool supplied at
the same time is required to convert the text file before the text
converter is used.
Call: a2o.exe <ascii.txt>. <oem.txt>
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