Visara LINCS Central Control User Manual

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LINCS Central Control

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Pressing PF8-Forw initializes the selected keyboard with the chosen values and advances the
display to the first keyboard diagram. Although some of these options only apply to specific
keyboard types, the options will always be present on this panel. Inapplicable options will not
be applied to the selected keyboard.

Base Keyboard Language

The KDU allows you to modify layouts for Primary and Secondary languages selected on the
Device Options/Keyboard panel of Configuration. Toggle to select the keyboard layout
(Primary or Secondary) that will be modified. The configured language appears on the keyboard
layouts.

The selected languages apply to all keyboards. Changing a language on the Device Options/
Keyboard panel will cause all previous KDU modifications for that language to be lost.

Keypad

The Keypad update field enables you to selectively modify a keyboard’s keypad to a new
default value. You cannot use the Keypad update field to modify keyboards emulating ASCII.

You can select from four options here:

• DATA ENTRY - Choose this option if you want to select a Data Entry keypad.

• PROGRAM FUNCTION - Choose this option if you want to select a Program Function

keypad.

• NATIONAL LANGUAGE (default)- Choose this option if you want to select a National

Language keypad.

Numeric Delimiter

Toggle to select the numeric delimiter that can be used in Numeric Lock field. The choices
are: PERIOD(default) or COMMA. The value selected is typically what you need to use to
denote fractional money denominations for the language that you are communicating with.

Typewriter Selection

Toggle to select one of the following layouts:

• Standard C3 layout (default)

• C4 layout IBM RPQ-8K0932

• Model 808 IBM RPQ-8K0808

Tripad Keyboard Selection

Toggle to choose the 88-key layout for keyboards having the tripad ID switch setting:

• Standard C3 Layout (default)

• C3 w/NUM Lock

• C3 w/NUM Lock IBM RPQ 8K1255

• International C8 WITHOUT NUM Lock

• International C8 w/NUM Lock