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4)
Calculated Length of Data exceeds 255 Characters:
Number of characters parsed within a field
exceeds 255 characters
Buffers
Each buffer text area is divided into three separate parts. Refer to screenshot above for labels.
1)
Starting byte for that line
2)
HEX character representation
3)
ASCII character representation (Unprintable ASCII characters (like <CR>) will be displayed as ‘.’ on
the right-hand side of the buffer area.)
Last Message Sent:
1)
Last complete message the gateway received from the ASCII device, processed, and sent to the
other protocol
Next Message to Send from Queue:
2)
This is the next complete message that the gateway has already received and processed from the
ASCII device, and will be sent next to the other protocol
Current Message being Received from ASCII:
1)
The current data that the gateway is receiving. Data needs to hit one of the three following end
cases to call a message complete:
a)
Max Message Length (max number of characters to receive)
b)
Receive Character Timeout (max time to wait after a character to call the current message
complete)
c)
Delimiters (gateway has not received the delimiters that are specified)
