SECTION 5 - DATA COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOL
For the Full Capcode mode, the form is:
< paging field > = BxxxxxxxFAPT
where
В
is an ASCII digit 0-7 that references
the Paging Format table stored inside
the Paging Terminal
xxxxxxx
are seven ASCII digits that form a valid
capcode for the Paging Format used.
Leading zeros are used, if necessary, to
fill all seven places
—
F
is an ASCII digit 0-9 that is the
pager function code
—
A
is an ASCII digit 0 or 1 that indicates
whether the message should be encoded as
numeric ( 0 ) or alphanumeric ( 1 ) data
—
P
is an ASCII digit 0 or 1 that indicates
whether this page has priority ( 1 =
transmit it immediately) or not ( 0 )
—
T
is an ASCII digit 0-3 that references
the Talk Times table stored inside the
—
Paging Terminal
The <checksum> is found by computing the arithmetic sum of the 7-bit values
of all preceding characters in the block. The least significant 12 bits of
that sum are grouped as three 4-bit hexadecimal digits. Hexadecimal 30 is
added to each of these digits so that each becomes an ASCII character in
the range hex 30 to hex 3F, corresponding to the chars 0123456789:;<=>? .
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