Message Control Characters - S-COM 6K Owner's Manual

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MESSAGE CONTROL CHARACTERS

All Control Characters are four (4) digits long, and always begin with 99. The 99 tells the Message
Handler that special instructions follow. The next two digits contain those special instructions. The
Control Characters that have been defined to date are:
9900
9910
9920
9930
9940
9950
9981
9983
9985
9987
Any programmable message can contain any mixture of message types and routings described
above. Therefore, a message could be made up of several different types of characters or tone
pages, intended for different destinations.
When programming a message, first enter the routing, then the type of message, then the
message itself.
Routing codes were developed to give the customer control over the routing of messages to the
transmitter and phone line. You can use these codes to force IDs, courtesy beeps, timeout
messages, and so on to go to the transmitter, even when a control operator is programming via the
phone line.
When the message ends, the Message Handler defaults back to standard routing. Standard routing
means that all messages normally go to the transmitter except when a control operator is
programming the controller via the phone line, in which case all messages are sent to the phone
line.
The following sections discuss each message type in greater detail.
6K V1.02 03-16-91
CONTROL CHARACTER DEFINITIONS
CW Characters follow
Beep Characters follow
A Single-Tone Page follows
A Two-Tone Page follows
A 5/6-Tone Page follows
DTMF Characters follow
Route the following message to the transmitter
Route the following message to the phone line
Unroute the following message to the transmitter
Unroute the following message to the phone line
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