S7-200 Conversation, * and & prefix

Paullys50

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Hey guys, doing a small program conversion of an old system. The existing system uses an S7-200 PLC, logic is pretty straight forward however there are some block moves going on that I 90% understand but when I see * or & as a prefix, I don't know what that means.

Example:


+------------------+
| BLKMOV_B |
---------------+ |
| |
| |
*#Temp_5| | VB3370
30 | |
+------------------|




It appears 30 bytes of data are moving from the *Temp_5 reference, starting at VB3370 - VB3399.

I am trying to understand where the source data is coming from. Temp_5 appears to be the result of a calculating a starting reference point for the block move, but does the * indicate something else?

There is another area that uses &VB3520, what does '&' mean?

Thanks! Flipping through the manual in the mean time.
 

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