RTC
®
5 PC Interface Board
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10 Commands And Functions
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10.1.2 Compatibility
For RTC
®
5 customers who previously used the RTC
®
4,
the command descriptions (in
) note in
each command’s “RTC
®
4
RTC
®
5” section:
• to what extent a command differs from that of
the RTC
®
4,
• whether the command is new to the command
set,
• whether and how parameter values are converted
in RTC
®
4 compatibility mode.
Some RTC
®
3/RTC
®
4 commands and a few RTC
®
2
commands emulated by the RTC
®
3/RTC
®
4 are not
supported by the RTC
®
5. These commands are listed
For general information about migrating from the
RTC
®
4 to the RTC
®
5 and about the RTC
®
4 compati-
bility mode, see
10.1.3 Version Information
Starting with DLL 515, OUT 514, RBF 512, descrip-
tions for a number of commands now include version
information, listed under “Version info”:
• For newly added commands: the software or DSP
version in which they become available
• For some older commands: information on imple-
mented changes.
All new commands and changes to old commands
are also listed in the file
RTC5_Software_RevisionHistory_<Date>.pdf
included in the RTC
®
5 software package.
10.1.4 Optional Functions
The RTC
®
5 can be configured for functionality not
available in the standard version (see
). If this
extended functionality is not enabled or installed by
SCANLAB, then the associated commands will have
only partial or non-existent effect. For example,
commands to activate Processing-on-the-fly
correction will have no effect if the Processing-on-
the-fly option hasn’t been enabled. If the 3D func-
tionality option hasn’t been enabled, then 3D vector
commands will still execute, but no Z-axis signals will
be outputted. Likewise, if the “second scan head
control” option hasn’t been enabled, then
commands that can explicitly specify the scan head
connector (e.g.
) will have no effect on the
secondary scan head connector.
If applicable, the individual command descriptions
describe such limitations.