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C
Command - Counter
Description
The coun ter (
C
) com mand de fines one of 10 au -
to matic coun ters used in con sec u tive num ber -
ing ap pli ca tions (i.e. se rial num bers). Counters
must be de fined
af ter
vari ables.
For Numeric Serialization Only. The counter
function does not support Alpha or Alpha-Numeric
Serialization.
Syntax
Cp
1
,
p
2
,
p
3
,
p
4
, “
[-]PROMPT
”
Parameters
p
1
= Counter num ber. Range:
0
to
9
p
2
= Maximum num ber of digits for coun ter.
Range:
1
to
29
p
3
= Field Jus ti fi ca tion.
L
= Left
R
= Right
C
= Cen ter
N
= No Jus ti fi ca tion
p
4
= Step Value.
+
or
-
sign followed by a
single digit of
1 - 9
. Using a step value
of
+0
al lows the counter to be used as
an ad ditional vari able data field.
“
PROMPT
”= An ASCII text field that will be
trans mit ted to the KDU or host (via the
serial in terface) each time the command
is ex ecuted. Typically used to request
the op erator to en ter a start ing coun ter
value.
KDU Prompt
Options
[
-
] = Having the first char acter of the prompt
a sin gle mi nus sign will cause the
prompt to dis play only once af ter form
re trieval.
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