System Utilities
6-2
Falcon
®
DOS Portable Terminals
Chapter Conventions
This chapter describes some of the device drivers and utilities that are designed
to be run on a Falcon unit. Where applicable, command syntax and parameters
are given. Parameters may be supplied using either uppercase or lowercase
letters, and the hyphen (-) may be substituted for the forward slash (/).
CFGDEV.SYS
The
cfgdev.sys
file is located on drive
B
of the Falcon unit. When
cfgdev.sys
is loaded by the
config.sys
file on that drive, a logical
character-based device called PARAMS is created. This device receives
programming strings that modify the configuration parameters that control the
behavior of several system components. There are three ways programming
strings can be sent to the PARAMS device:
z
Bar Code
Special bar code labels beginning with
$+$-
and ending
with
EE
can be scanned using any bar code scanning device.
contains many useful labels.
z
File Copy
Files containing the bar code programming strings can be
created and copied to the PARAMS device. The Falcon Configuration
Utility creates a file called
bparams.ini
that contains all of the
configuration settings. The
autoexec.bat
file on the Falcon’s drive
C
contains the following command:
which copies the
bparams.ini
file to PARAMS. A new file may also
be created which contains the configuration settings.
Example:
To use the D2 defaults with the
CTL-ALT-DEL
key sequence
disabled, complete the following steps:
1.
Create a
myparams.ini
file with the following text:
D2
sets the D2 defaults, and
E00
disables the
CTL-ALT-DEL
key
combination.
2.
Copy
myparams.ini
to the PARAMS device using the following
DOS command:
IF EXIST c:\bparams.ini copy c:\bparams.ini PARAMS
$+$-D2E00EE
COPY MYPARAMS.INI PARAMS
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