SCS PTC-IIex, Manual

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6 Commands
6.103 USOs (Unshift On Space)
Default setting: 0
Parameter: 0 Unshift on space disabled.
1 Unshift on space enabled.
Has effect only on RTTY reception. With
USOs
switched on, every received space
character sets the Letter/Figures shift to Letters. This has the advantage that the manual
shift switching (<Ctrl-B> or <Ctrl> + <B>) required with weak or noisy signals, (to
mitigate the figures printed due to a false Figures shift being received, or Letters shift
being missed) can be virtually dispensed with. The long strings of numbers often received
from DX stations, instead of the actual text, is now virtually a thing of the past. A
problem can however occur with a switched on
USOs
, when a string of figures are
received with only a space character in between, and the transmitting station fails to send
a new Figures-shift after the space, to denote that the next character(s) are figures.
6.104 VERIfy
This is identical to the
RELOad
command, except the BBS file is NOT loaded into the
PTC. The checksum is calculated instead so as to check the file integrity, without
destroying the BBS contents.
6.105 Version
Remote
Shows a short version and copyright message:
PTC-IIex System / written by H.-P. Helfert (DL6MAA)
Version V.3.7 (C) 1994-2006 SCS GmbH – Germany
BIOS: Version 1.90 detected
Packet Radio Port: SCS – DSP MULTI MODEM detected
6.105.1 Displaying the most important modem properties
Parameter # with the version-command (terminal-mode) displays the most important
modem properties in a special format. This eases the automatic configuration of terminal
programs and therefore is mainly important just for software developers. The output
format looks as follows:
Every parameter given out by the PTC begins with #, followed by a unique parameter
number (ASCII, decimal) as well as a colon (:). The parameter itself follows the colon,
terminated by the following # or <CR> (as terminator for the whole string).
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