communication with your reader hardware. If you watch the bottom
of the screen then you can see a status message indicating whether
communication was sucessfull. If you see an error message
asking "Do you want to use pseudo mode?" then you know that
communication was not successful and you should check your
hardware setup.
After entering the program you use the F1, F2, F3, and F4 keys
to access different configuration pages. Within each page, press
the combination keys as shown on the screen to change the
various options. After you press the combination key for a
particular optoin you will usually be prompted for a value
apropriate for that option.
3.2 Page 1 - General Configuration
ShortcutKey, Title, and Description
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ALT-B Time Delay of Keystrokes (ms)
Specify intercharacter time delay for chars read.
Specify a value between 0 and 99 ms.
ALT-C Sound buzzer when good read
If YES, the reader will produce an audible beep
upon a sucessful read.
ALT-D Country code
Select the keyboard country type, one of:
US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, or Italy.
ALT-E Type of MSR
Select the type of magnetic card reader. Choices
are: track 1 only, track 2 only, track 3 only,
track 1 and 2, track 2 and 3, track 1, 2 and 3.
3.3 Page 2 - Bar Code Reader Configuration
ShortcutKey, Title, and Description
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ALT-A Use bar code reader
If YES, the bar code reader will be enabled.
ALT-B Type of scanner
Select the type of scanner, trigger or auto detect.
ALT-C Preamble characters
Specify characters to be sent before the bar code data.
ALT-D Postamble characters
Specify characters to be sent after the bar code data.
ALT-E Send bar code ID
If YES, the reader will send a letter
indicating the symbology of the bar code being read.
Use this option to identify the symbology of unknown
bar codes.
Bar Code Symbology ID
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Code 39 A
Interleaved 2/5 B
Code 128 C
UPC_E D
UPC_A E
