Learning RSLogix 5000 Programming

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "This module can be configured to record or latch the time at which a state is changed from ON to OFF, OFF to ON, or both."

A block of code is set as follows:

(*****  Alarm Totalizer  *****)
if (OSRI_01.OutputBit AND NOT FC1001_FLT_ALM.Disabled) then 
    Total_Alarm_Count := Total_Alarm_Count + 1;
end_if;

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in ...