Intermec EasyCoder 501 XP User Manual page 80

Setup Parameters, cont.
Serial Communication, cont.
Character Length
Thecharacterlengthspeci
esthenumberofbitsthatwilldefine
acharacter.Eightbitsarerecommended,becausethatopti
on
allowsmorespecialcharactersandcharactersspeci
cforforeign
languagestobeused.Refertothe IntermecFingerprintv7.
61,
Programmer
sReferenceManual forinformationonwhichcharac-
tersareavailableinvariouscombinationsofcharacterle
ngthand
characterset.
·7
·8
Parity
Theparitydecideshowthe
rmwarewillcheckfortransmission
errors.Therearefiveoptions:
·
·
·
·
·
Stop Bits
Thenumberofstopbitsspecifieshowmanybitswilldefinethe
endofacharacter.Therearetwooptions:
·1
·2
Flow Control
·RTS/CTS
RTS/CTSisaprotocolwherethecommunicationiscon-
trolledbycurrentsthroughseparatelinesinthecableb
eingset
eithertohighorlow.Bydefault,thisoptionisdisabled
.
RTShighindicatesthatthetransmittingunitisabletor
eceive
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CharactersASCII000to12
7decimal
CharactersASCII000to25
5decimal(default)
None(default)
Even
Odd
Mark
Space
(default)
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fi
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fi