Moxa Technologies RS-422, RS-485 Introduction, Quick Installation, Operating System Support

Introduction

which the configuration utility Io-irq.exe can access the board, which is identical to the fir st por t's base I/O addr ess.

The CAP jumper, J P1, is designed in case of that users forget the CAP address. Normally JP1 is left open. When JP1 is short, the CAP address is forced to a fixed I/O address, 0xA700. While doing quick hardware installation, JP1 is required to be shorted, detailed in chapter, “Hardware Installation”.

Quick Installation

To ease the hardware configuration, users who install only one Industio CI-134 Ser ies boar d under Windows NT and 95/98 are recommended to adopt quick installation described in chapter 2, “Hardware Installation”.

Operating System Support

The family is operational under most popular operating systems such as Windows NT, Windows 95/98, DOS, SCO UNIX/XENIX/OpenServer, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD, etc. However, MOXA device dr iver s for Windows NT, Windows 95/98, DOS and Windows 3.x are provided for better installation, configuration and performance. In this manual, chapters for MOXA Windows NT, Windows 95/98, DOS and Windows 3.x device drivers are described. For those compatible systems not mentioned, please refer to system’s manual for how to install and configure the standard driver.

MOXA Serial Comm Tools

For application development, MOXA provides an easy-to-use serial communication library under Windows NT, Windows 95/98 (PComm), DOS and Windows 3.x (API-232). Users can use this library to develop your own applications using Microsoft C, Turbo C, Assembly, QuickBASIC, Turbo Pascal, Clipper, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland Delphi, etc. Utilities, such as Data Scope, Monitor, Terminal Emulator, Diagnostics, etc., are included for debugging or monitoring the communication status or terminal emulation or even file transferring.

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