Miscellaneous Commands - Honeywell N3680 User Manual

Miscellaneous Commands

FB—Suppress characters
Suppress all occurrences of up to 15 different characters, starting at the current
cursor position, as the cursor is advanced by other commands. When the FC com-
mand is encountered, the suppress function is terminated. The cursor is not moved
by the FB command.
Syntax = FBnnxxyy . .zz where nn is a count of the number of suppressed charac-
ters in the list, and xxyy .. zz is the list of characters to be suppressed.
Example: Remove spaces in bar code data
This example shows a bar code that has spaces in the data. You may want to
remove the spaces before sending the data. Using the bar code above:
Command string: FB0120F10D
FB
01
20
F1
0D
The data is output as:
34567890
<CR>
FC—Stop suppressing characters
Disables suppress filter and clear all suppressed characters. Syntax = FC.
E4—Replace characters
Replaces up to 15 characters in the output message, without moving the cursor.
Replacement continues until the E5 command is encountered. Syntax = E4nnxx-
xx
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list (characters to be replaced plus replacement characters); xx
to be replaced and xx
and zz
Example: Replace zeroes with CRs in bar code data
70
"Suppress characters" command
Number of character types to be suppressed
Hex value for a space
"Send all characters" command
Hex value for a CR
yy yy ...zz zz where nn is the total count of the number of characters in the
2 1 2 1 2
2
.
2
defines replacement characters, continuing through zz
defines characters
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