System information

SECTION TWO - FRONT PANEL OPERATION

F9 (Prev) Displays the previous event in the program file.

F10 (Next) Displays the next event in the program file.

Help (Verf) When editing a conversational file, you can verify the program you are editing.

The Help key will show Verf when it is active.

The HELP (Verf) key will not be active if you are currently running or verifying a program.

When you press the HELP (Verf) key, the program will dry run verify with a zero radius tools,

just as if you had verified the program using the F5 (Part) option. Feed moves are shown as

yellow. Rapid moves are not shown. After the program is verified it will be auto-scaled. You will

be looking at the F6 (Displ) - F3 (Graph) screen. You can rotate, scale, zoom, etc. If you press

ESC, you will return to the conversational editor.

Notes on HELP (Verf)

Note 1: When the program is being verified, it will ignore M6s, M0s, M1s, INPUT

statements, etc.

Note 2. If the program takes a long time to verify, you can press the ESC key while it is

verifying. It will auto-scale what it has verified and put you at the F6(Displ)-

F3(Graph) screen. It will then continue to verify until it ends or you press ESC

again.

Note 3. Whiles without wends and wends without whiles will not give error messages.

ESC (Exit) Exits the conversational system and automatically creates the executable text

program with an O prefix.