“Hyperterm” users will need to visit the Hilgraeve website http://www.hilgraeve.com/ and download a current version of this free terminal emulator in order for all characters to be properly displayed. For many years, Microsoft has bundled Hilgraeve’s terminal emulation software with Windows, and those bundled versions have some issues with some of the commands that the DAB uses. Hilgraeve’s website is silent as to when the bug(s) related to the screen redraw functions were addressed, but their version 6.3 appears to work fine.
Hilgraeve’s product is the only “free” emulator known at this time to provide true VT100 emulation and YMODEM file transfer capabilities. If you find other programs that work, please let us know.
SCRIPT – Execute text file to program the 7K controller
Issuing the script command followed by a text file’s name will echo the contents of that file to the console, and any lines beginning with an exclamation point (‘!’) will be parsed and sent to the 7K controller in the same manner that a command may be directly executed from the command line. Just as with manually entered commands, long lines can be continued on the next line by ending the line with a back slash (‘\’).
Lines beginning with an exclamation point are limited to 80
Keep in mind that the file will be transmitted as quickly as the 7K can receive it and if command responses are enabled could cause the 7K’s 400 byte message buffer to wrap resulting in some messages being lost or corrupted.
Also keep in mind that the while this command is executing, no speech words can be played and will cause the 7K’s message system to stall and time out each individual word or phrase. Therefore, it is advised that any enabled command responses not utilize speech responses.
Example:
;play warble tones
!99 15 9900 40 40 9910 5850 74 55 10 20 10 20 10 20
;play morse ditty
!99 15 9900 40 40 54 14 28 14 40 14 14
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