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HEIDENHAIN TNC 128 (77184x-02) User Manual

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Programming: Fundamentals, file management

3.4

Working with the file manager

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TNC 128 | User's Manual HEIDENHAIN Conversational Programming | 5/2014

Displaying and editing text files

To open and edit text files (ASCII files, e.g. with the extension

txt

),

use the internal text editor. Proceed as follows:

Call the file manager

Select the drive and the directory in which the text
file is saved

Move the highlight to the text file

Press the ENT key: The TNC opens the text file
with the internal text editor

Alternatively, you can also open the ASCII files using
the

Leafpad

additional tool. The shortcuts you are

familiar with from Windows, which you can use to
edit texts quickly (CTRL+C, CTRL+V,...), are available
within

Leafpad

.

With the key combination ALT+TAB you can always
return to the TNC user interface while leaving the
text file open. Alternatively, you can also click the
corresponding symbol in the task bar to switch back
to the TNC interface.

To open

Leafpad

, proceed as follows:

Use the mouse to select the

Menu HEIDENHAIN icon from the

task bar

Select the

Tools and Leafpad menu items in the pull-down

menu

To exit

Leafpad

, proceed as follows:

Use the mouse to select the

File menu item

Select the menu item

Quit: The TNC returns to the file manager