This option uses the procedure currently open in the MPT Procedure Editor.
When you click Run on the Station Controls panel, the selected MPT specimen
is linked to the current procedure.

Note

If the currently loaded procedure has been modified but has not been
saved, “modified” is displayed after the time stamp. If the procedure has
never been saved, then it will not display a time stamp.

Procedure linked (or

assigned) to the MPT

specimen

This option loads the procedure that is currently linked to the MPT specimen.
This procedure is recorded in the .prm file in the MPT specimen.

Note

If the referenced procedure file has been deleted or moved, this selection
is dimmed, and “not found” is displayed after the file name.

Procedure snapshot

from last run

This option loads a copy of the last procedure run against the MPT specimen.
This procedure is recorded in the .mpp recovery file in the MPT specimen.

You should select this option if you want to load the procedure and restore the
settings exactly as they were the last time you ran the test. This option can be
used in conjunction with the

saved state selection to recover an interrupted test

If the procedure was modified without being saved before it was run, “modified”
is displayed after the time stamp. This means the snapshot version of the
procedure run against the MPT specimen contains modifications that may not be
present in the saved version of the procedure.

Most recently saved

version

This option loads the most recently saved version of the procedure.

This option appears only if the saved procedure has been modified since it was
saved and is different from the linked procedure.

For more information

For more information on the recovery file, see

“About Specimen.prm Files”

page 139.

For more information on the recovery file, see

“About Specimen.mpp Files”

page 138.