Creating A Data File - GE MFE DMS 2 Operating Manual

Step 2: Press
under the SELECT selection. Note that
as the button is pressed, different comment lines are
highlighted.
Step 3: Select the first comment line so that it's highlighted.
Then, press . This will open the Virtual Keyboard
(Figure 3-8). You'll use this keyboard to enter any comments
you choose (each up to 16 characters in length) into the 16
comment lines provided.
Step 4: Press
below the desired column to move the
cursor from one letter to another on the Virtual Keyboard.
When the desired letter is selected, press
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the letter to the Master Commnent Line. When you've
finished creating the comment, press
Master Comment List. Note that you're newly-created
comment now appears on one of the lines in the Master
Comment List.
Step 5: After you've entered all of the desired comments,
press
be able to change this Master Comment List at any time.
Later, when you're working in a specific Data File, you'll use
this Master Comment List as a basis for an Active File
Comment List that's attached to that one specific file. (Refer
to Section 4.3.4.)
3.4.3

Creating a Data File

All data, thickness values, A-scans, and B-scans (DMS 2
to send
only) can be stored in files in the on-board data recorder.
Before data can be recorded, however, a file must be created
using the File Creation Function.
3. Setting Up the DMS 2
or to close the Master Comment List. You'll
to return to the
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