Moxa Technologies Industio C114HI, Manual

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Chapter 7 For DOS Users
The C114HI is useful for office automation and industrial control as well as data
acquisition and communication. Because many users need to implement an industrial
control system or data acquisition system in the DOS environment, but DOS did not
have any better communication API, thus Moxa has developed device drivers and
library functions under DOS. Furthermore, Data Scope utility is very helpful for
troubleshooting and debugging the serial communications.
In this chapter, driver installation, setup, loading and removal procedure are described.
Utility,
Data Scope , is explained, which is good for terminal emulation, data scope and
diagnostics. Related issues such as device naming and programming are also stated.
Moxa device driver is a port-based one and supports maximum of 8 serial ports.
Settings of each port can be set independently.
7.1 Driver Installation, Setup, Loading and Unloading
MOXA provides a software package that assists users to develop and/or debug
programs for serial communications under DOS. It supports device drivers for the
MOXA boards such as C114HI,
Smartio
C104H/C168H Family,
Intellio
C218/C320 Series and standard PC COM ports, etc.
Driver Installation
Run the installation program, DOSINST.EXE , in the DOS/Windows 3.x (API-232)
software diskette. Specify the target directory (e.g. C:\MOXA ) where software
driver and library will be copied to. Press F2 to start the installation.
Driver Setup
1. Change to target directory and run the setup program, BIN\SETUP.EXE .
This program is to configure IRQ, port number, etc., of the MOXA boards. The
configuration will be referred to by the later executed DOS driver. Note that