Maple Systems MAP450D - Manual (Page 2)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
About Your Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Operational Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CHAPTER 1: OIT Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Configuration Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Operating Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Display Viewing Angle Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Baud Rate Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Parity Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Data Bits Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Stop Bits Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Handshaking Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Software Handshaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hardware Handshaking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
No Handshaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Operating Mode Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Line Terminator Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Append Linefeed Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Local Echo Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Block Echo Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Turn-Around Delay Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Delayed Linefeed Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Use 3-Wire RS-485 Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Network Address Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Tab Width Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Cursor Type Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Wrap Around Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Local Keyboard Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Key Click Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Local Setup Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Passwords Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
CHAPTER 2: Operating Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Interactive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Block Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Network Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Sending Data to the OITs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Receiving Data from the OITs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Sending the Same Data to all OITs . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Network Addressing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Sample Network Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
CHAPTER 3: Using the OIT’s Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Extended Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Displaying Text from the OIT’s Keypad. . . . . . . . . . . 24
Displaying Text from the Host Controller. . . . . . . . . . 25
Using a Display Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Displaying Text from Predefined Messages . . . . . . . . 27
Optional Settings for Predefined Messages . . . . . 27
APPENDIX A: Control Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Configuration Control Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Set LCD Viewing Angle Command. . . . . . . . . . . 29
Save Configuration Parameters Command . . . . . 29
Request Configuration Data Command . . . . . . . . 29
Display and Cursor Format Control Command . . 30
Display Format Control Command . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Keyboard Control Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Set Turn-Around Delay Command . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Set Tab Character Width Command . . . . . . . . . . 30
Set Communications Parameters Command . . . . 31
Enable Handshaking Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Set Operating Mode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Set Line Terminator Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
General Purpose Control Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Echo Back Text Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Sound Bell Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Display Message Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Clear Output Buffer Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Poll OIT Buffer Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Retransmit Last Keyboard Buffer Command. . . . 32
Request Keyboard Buffer Status Command . . . . 33
Enable Block Mode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Disable Block Mode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Display Control Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Read Display Variable Command . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Write Display Variable Command . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Create Display Variable Command . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Set Cursor Position Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Read Cursor Position Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
APPENDIX B: Control Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
APPENDIX C: Extended Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
APPENDIX D: ASCII Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
APPENDIX E: Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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