Datamax v1.1x user manual Serial Out

Chapter 5 : Using Processes

5.7.2.Serial Out

General introduction	The Serial Out process allows you to create an output process that
	sends data out a serial com port to an auxiliary device.
	The format of the data to be sent is defined here.
Serial Out	To send data to an auxiliary port, proceed as follows:
	1	Add the process Serial Out to your label program
	2	Select the Communication Port that this process will use to send
	3	the data.
		In the Start with box, click the appropriate character to be used
		as the first character in the data stream to be transmitted :
		ƒ None if you do not want to wait for a special start character.
	4	ƒ STX if you want to wait for a Start of Text character.
		In the End with box, click the appropriate character to be used to
		terminate the data stream to be transmitted:
		ƒ ETX if you want an End-of-Text character as the stop
		character.
		ƒ CR/LF if you want a Carriage Return/Line Feed as the stop
	5	sequence.
		In the Data area, select the variable(s) to send or type the text to
	6	send.
		Click OK
Example	In this example, serial com 2 is used to send a stream of data. The
	transmission begins with a start-of-text character followed by the
	contents of the variables [E3], [E4], [E5], [E6] and [E7]. The
	transmission is terminated with carriage return/line feed.

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