Rockwell Automation T3836 ICS Regent PDS to Winterpret Conversion Package - Manual (Page 3)

PDS to W INTERPRET Conversion Package (T3836)
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drive letter and directory path to where it is located, and know
a valid system user name for the W
INTERPRET software.
Once you have noted where your PDS and W INTERPRET files
are located on your PC you can proceed to run the PDS2WIN
conversion program
Running the PDS2WIN Conversion Program
PDS2WIN needs to know the location of the PDS files, the
location of the W
INTERPRET system files, a project name
receiving the converted files, and a valid system user name for
the project and programs that will be converted. After
receiving the above information, PDS2WIN creates the
project for the converted files. It converts the I/O
configuration, then the shared variables. Next, PDS2WIN
creates a program called library where it places all the
converted function block files. The PDS directory is read and
all the function block files are converted and placed in the
library program. Finally, each of the PDS application
programs are converted and the appropriate function block
files are copied from the library program to the each converted
program.
PDS2WIN can be run from any directory or drive. To run the
PDS2WIN program type drive:\[path]\pds2win ,where
drive:\[path] is the drive letter and directory path to where
the conversion program is located. For example, if you want
to run the conversion program from the distribution disk
installed in drive B, you would type b:\pds2win.
Following are the prompts displayed from the PDS2WIN
conversion program. The prompt text is shown in bold letters
and example user responses are in italics.