List of abbreviations

The following abbreviatinos are used throughout this documentation:

Abbreviation

Explanation

BCD

Binary Coded Decimal

COM

Component Object Model

CSV

Character Separated Values

DA

Data Access

DCOM

Distributed Component Object Model

DDE

Dynamic Data Exchange

GVL

Global Variable List (Control FPWIN Pro7)

OLE

Object Linking and Embedding

OPC

OLE for Process Control

OutProc

An OutProc server realizes one of three characteristics of a standardized OPC server. If implemented as an OutProc server, the application is started by an OPC client from an autarkic executable file. The server application can reside on the local or a remote machine.

PLC

Programmable Logic Controller

XML

Extended Markup Language