Intermec EasyCoder F2 – User’s Guide
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Chapter 8
Intermec Shell Startup Program
The Terminal Setup program in Intermec Shell allows the opera-
tor to control the whole Intermec Shell program remotely from
a host computer or terminal and to read or change the printer’s
setup. There must be a working two-way serial communication
between printer and host, and the host must be running a
communication program (for example MS Windows HyperTer-
minal) that can transmit and receive data in ASCII format; that
is, as printable characters. Set up the terminal as VT100.
Enter Terminal Setup by transmitting three upper- or lowercase
T
characters (
TTT
or
ttt
) while the printer either shows the Inter-
mec Shell countdown menus or the Select Application menu.
If you cannot start Terminal Setup, the communication protocols
of the printer and the host probably do not match, or there is
some other communication error. For example, you may have a
defective communication cable, the wrong port may be selected
on the host, or the cable is connected to the wrong printer port
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.
You can check and change the printer’s setup in the Setup Mode,
which you can enter by pressing the <
Setup
> key on the printer’s
built-in keyboard. Proceed as described in Chapter 7, “Setup
Mode.” Among the facilities in Intermec Shell, you will also
fi nd a number of options that allow you to read or change the
communication setup of the printer:
•
Setup
This is another way of entering the Setup Mode, where you
can browse through the setup parameters and make changes
using the printer’s keyboard.
•
Print Setup
Here you can print the current setup on one or more labels.
•
Default Setup
This option allows you to reset the communication param-
eters for all serial communication channels on the printer to
default values.
Change the communication setup of the printer according to
the host or vice versa. Once printer and host have been set
up with the same communication parameters, go to the “Select
Application” menu and use the triple T (
TTT
or
ttt
) to start
Terminal Setup.
Terminal Setup
Starting Terminal Setup
Communication Problems
1
/. By default, "uart1:" is stan-
dard IN/OUT channel and
should be used for running Ter-
minal Setup. However, other
ports could be appointed stan-
dard IN and/or OUT channel
by means of the Intermec Fin-
gerprint statement SETSTDIO.
Refer to the Intermec Fingerprint
manuals for further information.
