The Batch Script system is intended as a simple mechanism to allow Engineers or the users to configure events happening in a machine tool shop to run programs on a computer. This allows us to pass warning to operators, to make records and hence to try to keep machines in production and enable the reasons for non-productivity to be monitored and fixed.
To keep things so they can be as simple as you like or as complicated, SBS is built like a simple programming language. We have tried to take the simple string handling stuff and automatic allocation of variables from BASIC while using the better logic and maths stuff from C/C++.
At the end of this document there is a formal syntactical definition and a list of the functions provided.
The main part of this manual is a tutorial style introduction to writing scripts. If you are a long time-served programmer please at least scan over this to get the feel of the SBS system. You may find this document slow but we are trying to make scripts available to everyone.