Setup Menus

Serial Settings

When the terminal is not in WBT mode, this dialog box is displayed by selecting Serial in the Settings menu, or by clicking the Configure... button in the New Connection dialog box when the connection type is set to Serial. Note that the port for serial communications is selected via the New Connection dialog box which is displayed from the File menu.

Baud Rate

Factory default: 9600

This specifies the transmit and receive baud rates for the port selected for host communications.

Parity

Factory default: None

This option specifies the parity mode for each transmitted character. If the number of Data Bits is 8, set this option to None.

Selecting Odd will cause an eighth bit to be added with a value of 1 if the previous 7 bits add up to an even number, and 0 if the previous 7 bits add up to an odd number. Selecting Even will cause an eighth bit to be added with a value of 1 if the previous 7 bits add up to an odd number, and 0 if the previous 7 bits add up to an even number. Mark parity will set every eighth bit to 1 and Space parity every bit to 0.

Flow Control

Factory default: Input

This option specifies the type of flow control used by the line port to communicate readiness to transmit or receive data from the host.

None

- No flow control

Input

- XON/XOFF on received data

Output

- XON/XOFF on transmitted data

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