7.3Preparing Programs for Automatic Message Transmission
This section shows you how to prepare the programs necessary for automatic message transmission. The programs, which you can save to a floppy disk for future use, enable unattended automatic transmission.
The program for automatic transmission is called a macrofile. You will need several types of macrofiles depending on the MARITEX service to be utilized.
Commands
The tables which follow describe the commands for automatic trans- mission.
Table
Table 7-2 Commands processed by the DP-6
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CALL | S: Station Name | Calling station name and ID on assigned |
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FREE (support | Two digits |
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command for CALL) | 0?99 min. | assigned parameter (default setting: 10 min.) |
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RETRY (support | Two digits | Calling according to assigned parameter |
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command for CALL) | 0?99 min. | (default setting: 10 min.) |
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CASE | Text | For receving a message (designanted by |
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TIMEOUT (support | Two digits | Time alloted for reception of message by |
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command for CASE) | 0?99 min. | CASE command |
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SEND | Text | Text transmitted according to assigned |
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| B:file name | Send a file from floppy disk |
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WRU | None | Function keys [F7] ? [F10] |
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HR |
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OVER |
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BREAK |
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DISPLAY | Text | Text of message appears |
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INPUT | None | Waiting for keyboard input |
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| Transmit keyboard input message |
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