Patton electronic 2977 manual About Patton View, Starting Patton View

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About Patton View

Patton View is a diagnostic utility—currently available only for the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating sys- tem—that provides tools to monitor and troubleshoot Patton adapter connections. Patton Viewer includes the following features:

•Line monitoring that includes information on each line and virtual circuit, and on the various protocol lay- ers

•Line tracing

•Trace filtering tools that allow you to eliminate unwanted information from the display of information cap- tured during a trace

•Trace analysis tools that allow you to easily identify individual fields within captured frames

•Graphical user interface and context-sensitive help

To use PattonAssist Viewer, see section “Starting Patton View”.

Starting Patton View

To start PattonAssist Viewer do the following:

1.From the Start menu choose Run.

2.Enter the program name Pattonview.

3.Patton Viewer will start. For detailed information on Patton View tools, choose Help.

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