Serial Command Format
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MS-860 Industrial Raster Reader User’s Manual
Appendix D — Serial Command Format
Serial commands are of two types: utility and configuration.
Rules that apply to both utility and configuration commands
• A less than
<
and greater than
>
characters enclose the commands unless non-
delimited commands are used. (See
"Trigger Mode"
on page 7-6.)
• Commands and data are “case sensitive.” That is, characters must be entered as
upper or lower case, as specified.
Serial Utility Commands
These are sent during operations and are not followed by
<A>
or
<Z>
.
Serial Configuration “K” Commands
These begin with a single
K character followed by a three digit numeric, a comma, data
fields separated by commas, and typically, an initializing command, as follows:
<
K
three digit numeric,data,data,...etc.><initializing command>
1
An initializing command of type “
A
” (not saved to non-volatile memory) or type “
Z
”
(saved to non-volatile memory) may follow the command.
For example, to enable
UPC and save the change for power-on, send:
<K473,1><Z>
.
To change
Baud Rate and reset without saving changes for power-on, send
<K100,3><A>
.
Serial Configuration Command Conventions:
• All data fields (except the last) must be followed by a comma (without a space).
• The following characters cannot be used:
,
<
,
>
, and
NULL
.
• All fields preceding a modified field must be included.
• If there is no change in preceding fields, then commas alone can be entered in
these fields. For example, if only the last field in the following command is chang-
ing,
<K100,4,1,0,0>
can be entered as
<K100,,,0>
.
• All fields
following a modified field can be omitted. For example, to change Baud
Rate, send
<K100,3>
.
1. In many commands a K command will automatically be saved for power-on with the MS-860.
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