Commissioning
MCS100E Operating Instructions 8009504/VYWA7/V3-1/2018-01 © SICK AG
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4.2
External keyboard
To ease the entry of rather large volumes of data a standard type external keyboard can be
attached to the keyboard connector (DIN-connector with 5 poles) at the door.
4.2.1
Country-specific assignment of keys
Depending on the type of external keyboard attached, it may be necessary to adjust the
country-specific assignment of keys.
1
Switch MCS100E off and then on again.
2
Abort automatic start after query <
Start Program Y/N
)
3
If you want to remain at DOS level for more than 4 minutes: Disable the watchdogs
(
4
Start the “
Norton Commander
” at DOS level with: <c:\nc>
Note
: Switch MCS100E off and on again before selecting the “
Norton Commander
”.
5
In the “
Autoexec.bat
” file (<F4>):
– Insert “
rem(blank)
” before the line with the previous language and
– delete “
rem
” before the line with the desired language.
Example: After switching from German (gr) to English (us):
–
rem C:\dos\keyb gr,,c:\dos\keyboard.sys
–
C:\dos\keyb\ us,,c:\dos\keyboard.sys
6
If required, enable watchdogs again (
).
7
Exit the “
Norton Commander
”.
8
Start the measurement program with
1.bat
(
).
4.3
Language selection of the MCS program
The language of the MCS program is set:
• In the MCSCONF configuration program “
Directories and Files”
• In the measurement sequence program in menu option
Specialist: Utilities: Service:
Environment Configuration
:
Text file
.
4.4
Display setup
• Setting in the measurement program: (
)
• Setting via external keyboard:
– CTRL ALT +
– CTRL ALT –
The settings are not saved.
To enable the display of country-specific characters on the screen, country-
specific code pages must be loaded. This task should only be carried out by a
specialist who is well-acquainted with MS-DOS.