Xylem 6-Series Multiparameter - Manual (Page 100)

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YSI Incorporated Environmental Monitoring Systems Operations Manual 2-94
You may choose the entire file. Use the Space Bar to alternately stop and to resume scrolling. Use the Esc
key to cancel the view.
Select the 5–Quick View File option to view the last page of data from the last data file in sonde memory.
This feature is particularly useful in quickly reviewing recently acquired data at field sites so that system
performance can be assessed.
Select 6–Delete all files to IRREVERSIBLY remove all files from the sonde memory (INCLUDING the
.glp file that may contain valuable calibration data). It is critical not to use this option until all relevant data
from sonde memory has been transferred to your computer via one of the upload options. There is a
verification screen that appears, so that pressing the 6 key does not immediately delete all files at this point.
NOTE: By choosing the Delete function only .dat and .glp files will be erased. Calibration data for all
sensors installed and calibrated on the sonde will not be deleted.
The management of the .glp calibration record file that is automatically stored in sonde memory and is
described in Section 2.9.2 above is similar to that for data files. However, there are some differences in the
upload procedure of which the user should be aware. When uploading a .glp file there will be a choice of
three upload protocols as shown below:
The binary upload choice should ONLY be used when uploading the .glp file to a 650 Display/Logger; if
the binary protocol is used in a direct upload to PC, a .glp file will indeed be transferred, but it will not be
possible to open it using the current YSI software or any other text editor. Thus, during a direct transfer of
the .glp file to your PC, either the CDF or ASCII formats should be used. The result will be the conversion
of the file with a .glp extension in the sonde to one with a .txt extension which is now stored in the
ECOWWIN\DATA subdirectory of your PC. For example, the file 00003001.glp in the sonde will become
00003001.txt on transfer to PC and the file will be in a format which can easily be viewed and edited using
Notepad or other word processing software.
---------------File type---------------
1-Binary
2-Comma & '' '' Delimited
3-ASCII Text
Select option (0 for previous menu):