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14.2.2.Formatoftheemissionmessages
Theexchangesfromtherecordertoacontrol systemaremessagesmadeofsuccessionsofASCII
characters(andpossiblybinaryobjects)endedwithaterminationsequence.
Theformatoftheemissionmessagesisidenticalwiththeformatofthereceptionmessages.
However,itsstructureismorerigid.
The syntaxofanemissionmessageis: Messageunit+terminationsequence
Messageunit:
Ifthemessageincludesseveralmessageunits,theywillbeseparatedby";".
Terminationsequence:
-RS232link(selectionintheConfigmenu):
-CR:CarriageReturn(13indecimal)
-LF: LineFeed(10indecimal)
-CRandLF.
-Ethernetlink:
-LF: LineFeed(10indecimal)
Syntaxofamessageunit:
Amessageunit(forexample::TYP:THEJ,COMP)ismadeof severalfields
-Heading:
(forexample :TYP:THE)madeofone(simpleheading)orseveral(composedheading)chainsof1
to12alphabeticalcharacters(uppercaseonlyordigitalor"_"(codedASCII95indecimal).
Aheadingchainalwaysbeginswithanalphabeticalcharacter.
Inacomposedheading,characterchainsareseparatedwiththe":"character(for
example:TYP:THE).
-Headingseparator:
"space"character(32d)only
-Oneorseveralpiecesofdata:
(forexample: J,COMP)alphanumerical,digitalormadeorvariouscharactersorbinaryoctets.
-Dataseparator:
Acomma",".
Data:
Thereareseveraltypesofpiecesofdata:
-Alphanumericaldata:
1to12-characterASCII-codedchainsthatcanbealphabetical(uppercaseonly),digitalor"_"(95d)
(example J).