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3 Click OK to return to the To File object. The transaction bar
should now contain the statement WRITE TEXT "Test1"
EOL. This transaction sends the string Test1 to the
specified file.
Sending a Time Stamp to a File
The function now() in the Device ⇒ Function & Object Browser ⇒
Time & Date category gives the current time expressed as a
Real64 Scalar. The value of the Real is the number of seconds
since 00:00 hours on Jan. 1, 0001 AD.
Table 2 1 Writing the Default Transaction
Entry Description
a (expression
field)
The expression list field is highlighted and contains the
default a. Type "Test1", then click OK. (You need the
quotation marks to indicate a Text string. If you typed
Test1 without the quotation marks, VEE would interpret
this as a terminal name or global variable name.)
WRITE Use the default
WRITE.
TEXT Use the default
TEXT. The encoding TEXT will send the
data using ASCII characters.
DEFAULT
FORMAT
Use
DEFAULT FORMAT. The DEFAULT FORMAT will
choose an appropriate VEE format such as STRING.
EOL ON Use the default. The default EOL sequence is the escape
character for a new line \n.