Giving Operating System Commands from AVEVA E3D™

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General Commands : Giving Operating System Commands from AVEVA E3D™

AVEVA E3D™ normally assumes that any command input in response to its prompt character (*) is an instruction to the current module, and will check its validity on that assumption. The user can issue an operating system (OS) command to the host computer from within AVEVA E3D™ by entering the SYSCOM command followed immediately (without pressing Return) by the OS command enclosed between apostrophes (’) or vertical bars (|). The effect applies only to the single command line; as soon as the OS command has been executed, control is returned to AVEVA E3D™.

Note:

Do not try to issue OS commands which might disrupt AVEVA E3D™ operations; for example, commands which would close or amend files currently in use by AVEVA E3D™.


Example:
SYSCOM 'dir'	Lists directory from which the user entered AVEVA E3D™.