Rockwell Automation 1757-SWKIT4000 ProcessLogix R400.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide - Manual (Page 248)

Publication 1757-IN040B-EN-P - March 2002
10-20 New Functions and Features
User Defined Data Formats
The following scan tasks now support the creation of user defined
data formats. Data formats are used to specify the format that a field
value is in when read from a controller. This field value is then
converted into something suitable for the server to use. Examples of
standard data formats are IEEEFP and U4096.
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Allen-Bradley
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OPC Client
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Modicon
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Moore APACS
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Siemens S5 & S7
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Hitachi
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GE Fanuc Series 90
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DNP
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User scan task (database)
Application Development
The following compilers have been qualified for use with this release
of ProcessLogix:
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Microsoft Visual C++ v6.0 (with Service Pack 4)*+
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Microsoft Visual Basic v6.0 (with Service Pack 4)
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Compaq Visual Fortran v6.1 (with Patch A)+
*The Microsoft Platform SDK is also required when developing C/C++
programs. This can be obtained from Microsoft’s web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/setuplauncher.asp
+The following patch to the Fortran runtime library is required when
linking statically with the ProcessLogix libraries:
http://www5.compaq.com/fortran/kb/q1036.html