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Ascii response type ascii response terminator – Planar M46L User Manual

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Serial Port Settings and Diagnostics

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m40L/m46L Installation & Configuration Guide

Part of the RS232 command will be an address. This address may take several forms.
For example, suppose you have eight displays in one area divided into two groups.
You might set the ID s of the displays like this:

With this scheme, you have four ways to address these displays:

ASCII Response Type

Determines what type of data will be returned to the computer. For human-readable
text in a serial program, choose

SYMBOLIC

. For computer-read data, use

NUMERIC

or

DATA

ONLY

.

ASCII Response Terminator

Will be determined by what your serial program wants to see at the end of every
transmission from the display.

Group ID

Unit ID

A

1

A

2

A

3

A

4

B

1

B

2

B

3

B

4

Address

Affect on Displays

A3
B4
etc.

Only the specific display addressed will obey the command.
Also, the display will respond to the host computer.

**

All displays in this serial loop will obey the command.

*4

Both the displays whose IDs end in “4” will obey this
command.

B*

All four displays in Group B will obey the command.