Detailed Description 
  2.11 General conditions and NC-VAR_Selector 
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Fig. 2-21  Application of NC VAR selector in the STEP7 environment 
The NC VAR selector is used to generate a list of selected variables from a list of variables 
and then to generate an .awl file that can be compiled by the STEP7 compiler. 
•  A *.awl file contains the names and alias names of the NC variables, as well as 
information about their address parameters. Any data block generated from this file will 
only contain the address parameters (10 bytes per parameter). 
•  The generated data blocks must always be stored in the machine-specific file storage 
according to STEP7 specifications. 
•  To ensure that the parameterization of the GET/PUT (FB 2/3) blocks with respect to NC 
addresses can be implemented with symbols, the freely assignable, symbolic name of the 
generated data block must be included in the STEP7 symbol table.