Rockwell Automation 2706 DL20 SERIES G USER MANUAL - Manual (Page 43)

Chapter 4
Creating and Editing Messages
4–17
Imbed the time and date in a message, by typing a [Ctrl] [T] at the location in
the message that you want the time displayed at. The control T is displayed
as the character @. When the message is displayed, the time and date
replace the @ character. The time and date string has the following format:
HH;MM;SS DDD MMM DT YEAR where:
HH = hour
MM = minute
SS = second
DDD = day (MON,TUE, etc.)
MMM is the month (JAN, FEB, etc.)
DT = date
YEAR
The YEAR string is not displayed, but is printed on the printer if the message
is printed and if the printer has a carriage width of 26 characters or more.
If you want to see how much free memory is left for new messages, or
additions to the message under edit, type [Ctrl] [F]. You will see this
prompt:
FREE MEM = 16042
The example above means there are 16042 bytes left to be filled. Each
message reserves 14 bytes of memory, in addition to the memory used for the
actual characters of the message. Blank spaces, control T’s (@) and control
V’s (
↑
) use one byte each.
Imbedding Time
and Date (Ctrl T)
Showing Available
Memory (Ctrl F)