Rockwell Automation 2706-NP5 DL5 OFFLINE PROGRAMMER USER MANUAL - Manual (Page 24)

Chapter 4
Running DL5 Off-line Programmer
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6. After you have specified the attributes for the message, you can now enter
the actual message. The DL5 stores messages in blocks of 16 characters.
A message can be more than one block in length. You can view up to 16
message blocks on the Off-line Programmer’s Message Editing screen.
Enter the text of your message. Press [F1] for help on moving the cursor
and editing message blocks. The help screen is shown in the “F1” Help
Screen section.
7. Press [END] to save the message. The program will create a .DL5 file for
each message that you save. The individual message file names consist of
the DL5 name, message number, and the extension .DL5.
For example: The message file name shown in the screen on Page 9 was
NEW100.DL5. ’NEW’ is the name of the DL5 display, ’100’ is the message
number, and ’.DL5’ indicates that this is a message (not configuration) file.
See Naming a DL5 File for information on .CNF files. The .DL5 files are
stored differently depending on the type of computer system as listed below.
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For systems with 1 hard and 1 floppy or micro disk drive, the .DL5 files
are stored on the hard disk in the C:\DL5 directory.
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For systems with 2 floppy or micro disk drives, the .DL5 files are stored
on the floppy or micro disk in the ”A” drive (or other working drive).
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For systems with 1 floppy or micro disk drive, the .DL5 files are stored
on the floppy or micro disk that you have in your machine. Remember to
replace your system disk with a storage disk before saving DL5 names
and messages.