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keyboard/mouse again. Alternately a startup program might be in control for the entire session,
possibly responding to remotely signalled DDE events (running with the Autosampler Scheduler
programme is a case in point). A program might run in a completely stand alone way, performing
a series of processing steps, then terminate using the Exit command.
5.3 Remote Control
The PCS program can be put into a remote control mode by which commands are received over
an RS232 link. Such commands are text based and in fact consist of statements in the Macro
control language. Often they will consist of requests to a run a predefined program, since this
minimises the comm’s overhead. At the start and as each line of commands are executed, a
prompt is transmitted from the PCS program, so that the remote controller can recognise that
the application is ready to receive more input.
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