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Demos
Installation & Reference Guide — Doc. 5798
example. Note that the
Send e-Mail
symbol’s
rx
and
tx
streams are connected to the
(virtual) COM port symbol.
Demo 2 Block Diagram
N
OTE
:
This block diagram shows the use of a virtual COM port for TCP/IP communications with
the server. For serial communications using RS-232, the virtual COM port is simply replaced with a
real COM port.
LookupRcpt
is an analog signal whose value represents a “key” (a record ID
number) which is used to “look up” a name and address from an address book table.
LookupMsg
is used similarly to “look up” a subject and a message body from a
table of messages.
Notice how
LookupMsg
also supplies a default recipient name and address through
the message table’s
defaultAddr
field, or, if no name and address are discovered that
way, using the e-mailer signal block’s defaults. This behavior is laid out in detail in
the section titled “Implicit Recipient Name & Address,” page 47. However, it is
much easier to appreciate when you see it in action here (and in demo 3 as well), by
performing the following actions:
