USER'S GUIDE
BASIC OPERATION
PK232UG Rev. B 9/86
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3.4.2.2
Monitor Echo (
ECHO
)
The
ECHO
command controls local echo by your PK-232 in all modes except Packet-Ra-
dio's Transparent Mode. If the characters you type are correctly displayed, the ECHO
function is set properly.
o
If you don't see your typing on your display, set
ECHO
to ON.
o
If you see each typed character doubled, set
ECHO
to OFF.
3.4.2.3
Automatic Word/Character Output (
WORDOUT
)
In Morse, Baudot, ASCII RTTY and AMTOR, the
WORDOUT
command permits you to
toggle between two different ways of outputting your hand-typed characters. If
WORD-
OUT
is set ON, you have a limited form of editing of your typing errors.
o
If
WORDOUT
is OFF: each character you type will be transmitted as soon as you
type it as it enters the PK-232's transmit buffer.
o
If
WORDOUT
is ON: nothing will be sent until you type a <SPACE> character (space
bar), a <RETURN> or any punctuation mark such as parentheses, plus sign, aste-
risk, etc. This gives you the opportunity to correct your spelling or even change
words before the transmit buffer's contents are transmitted (even though the trans-
mit buffer has been emptied).
3.4.2.4
Line Feed <CTRL-J>
<CTRL-J> is part of the standard terminal keyboard <RETURN> or <ENTER> key oper-
ation and is normally send with a carriage return.
You can insert <CTRL-J> in any text where you need an isolated line feed function with-
out an associated carriage return. This is known as an "index" function in word process-
ing, and can be useful when formatting text files in your buffers.
3.4.2.5
Carriage Return <CTRL-M>
<CTRL-M> is part of the standard terminal keyboard <RETURN> or <ENTER> key op-
eration and is normally transmitted together with a line feed.
You can insert <CTRL-M> in any text where you need an isolated carriage return func-
tion without an associated line feed. This is also known as a "Zero-Index Carriage Re-
turn (ZICR)" function in word processing, and can be useful when formatting text files
in your message buffers.
3.4.2.6
Automatic Carriage Return (
ACRRTTY n
)
If the
ACRRTTY
is set ON, when transmitting Baudot or ASCII RTTY, a carriage return
<CR> character is sent automatically at the first space after n characters (default is
71). After the carriage return is sent, the character counter resets to 0 (zero).
Use this option when you are hand-typing text into the transmit buffer and don't want
the bother of watching the screen to see when you come to the end of a line.
NOTE:
There are several cases in which you should not use this option: