Printers Supported
1.EPSON 85 dot matrix or compatible (most dot matrix printers support this format).
2.HP Laser Jet or equivalent (many laser printers support this format).
For printers that are not compatible with the above printers, select the FILE printer port option in printer setup. This will send the report to an ASCII print file.
TOPIC 2 DESKTOP QUICK START
This section describes the installation procedure for the DOS DataView interrogator program.
Installation From MS-DOS Prompt
This installation procedure will copy the DataView Program to a hard
NOTE
The data view package contains two diskettes. disc part number
Each DOS DataView program comes on a single
a)The startup screen is displayed. Press enter to continue.
b)The product selection screen is displayed. Select which DOS DataView product to install DataView onto: a PC, Hewlett Packard (HP) Palmtop or pen based computer. Use the up/down arrow keys to highlight the product, and the space bar select the product, and press enter to continue.
NOTE
If loading scroll software on the same computer as reciprocating software the destination directory must be changed. Suggested change is C:\SCROLLDV. If the destination directory is not changed, installation of new reciprocating software will overwrite the scroll software.
c)The destination directory selection screen is displayed. Enter the directory the DataView program will reside in and press enter. The default directory is “C:\DATAVIEW.” If this directory does not exist on the PC, the installation program will automatically create the directory.
d)To preserve the previous sensor configuration file, sensors.cnf, the file is copied to sensors.sav.
e)To preserve the previous program configuration file, ml2.cnf, the file is copied to ml2.sav.
f)The custom.cnf, *.DCX, and *.PRN files will not be delete and will remain in the directory.
g)The previous version of the DataView program will be deleted prior to installing the new program.
h)All of the files are downloaded to the directory defined in step c. As the files are downloaded to the computer, a progress bar is displayed to indicate the amount of files successfully downloaded. The following files will reside in the directory defined in step c.
DATAVIEW.EXE | Main Program | |
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RPTVIEW.EXE | Report Generator Program | |
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PRNTFILE.EXE | Print Report Program | |
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COREMON.EXE | ||
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CTD2.EXE | ||
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SELFILE.EXE | DataReader Program - not included with the HP Palmtop or | |
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HELP.DAT | Help data file | |
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CONTHELP.DAT | Controller Monitor Help data file | |
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CGA.BGI | Graphics driver | |
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EGAVGA.BGI | Graphics driver | |
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ML2.CNF | Program configuration file | |
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MODELS2.CNF | Model controller configuration file | |
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SENSORS.CNF | Sensor configuration file | |
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