Introduction

1.3Utility Diskette

Included with this manual is a diskette containing two utilities for the Ethernet module: the Network Options Ethernet Tester utility and the ERRLOG utility.

1.3.1Network Options Ethernet Tester

This utility will allow you to:

establish a connection

zget and clear statistics

read and write registers

The Network Options Ethernet Tester communicates with the module over the Ethernet, from an IBM-compatible PC operating with Windows 3.1 or greater and with WinSock.

Instructions for using the Network Options Ethernet Tester are given in Chapter 6 on page 73.

The source code for the Network Options Ethernet Tester is included on the diskette.

1.3.2ERRLOG

This utility allows you to read and clear the crash log from an IBM-compatible PC communicating with the local Quantum controller via Modbus Plus.

The PC must be equipped with an SA85 Modbus Plus card and software driver. ERRLOG may be run in a native DOS environment or in a DOS box under Windows 3.1 or Windows 95.

Instructions for using ERRLOG to read and clear the crash log are given in section 7.1.9 on page 85.

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