Re: [foxboro] That DM to FoxView Conversion Tool

Joseph
From what I remember, you have to run the /usr/fox/wp/bin/tools/bdf_m1
on the usr markers. I know there are 6 in the /usr/fox/wp/fonts directory.

Lusr_mkr.bdf
Lusr_mkr1.bdf
hhusr_mkr.bdf
hhusr_mkr1.bdf
usr_mkr.bdf
usr_mkr1.bdf

The convert util will put them in the /opt/customer/displib directory.

As for Invensys suggesting to use the /opt partition.
On Solaris stations, expecially the Style B's, which was the first station
"supported", the /usr partition had very limited disk space, where the 
/opt partition was huge in comparison. So they had to go there.

Hope this info helps ! 

Regards,
Patrick Gosselin, CTech
System Service
Invensys Foxboro

-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:23 AM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] That DM to FoxView Conversion Tool

Gcconvert is a good program!  The comment I have is that the path for the
display files are user selectable.  You can use /usr/disp if you want in
FoxView.  /opt/menu turns out not to be a good choice for file location for
most plant.
   
  The reason Invensys suggest to put the user files under the /opt directory
is because it is a directory not use as much by the Invensys folks compare
to ./usr.  (Yes, it is used for /opt/fox/ciocfg etc!).
   
  If you move the display files to (let say) ./usr/disp and do a dump, you
will notice that the display path name is shown as what ever directory it is
located.
   
  Another comment is that the display file may still retain the old path
names.  A D_EDIT will fix this.  I have tried to run a script on converting
file path in a whole directory for another customer and it is a lot faster
than one file at a time.
   
  I am curious how do you convert the DM markers (valve, pump etc) to
FoxView because it does not have a marker set like DM?
   
  Joseph Wu
  Dow Chemical DCS contract support


                
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