Programming For The Rf Terminal - Worth Data 7100 RF Terminal Series Owner's Manual

Portable radio frequency terminal
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Programming for the RF Terminal

The three levels of programming support offered for the RF Terminal are:
Low Level ASCII sequences sent to and from the Base Station by the user program reading/writing to the serial port.
Active X drop-in components. Every necessary function is defined. You just complete the code for each function.
TCP/IP Active X drop-in components used by the "Server" computer to communicate with the "Client" computer that has the
Base Station(s) attached.
Low-Level Direct To Serial Port Programming
Planning
Remember, plan for every error that the Base Station might return including:
Sequence Errors detected
Illegal Command detected
Base Station Initialization detected
Addressing a Terminal Not Signed In detected
Command without an ID
Programs can be written in any language that has access to the serial port (reading/writing), regardless of the platform. No more
than one Base Station is allowed for each serial port.
Host to Terminal Programming
The basic format of a message that is transmitted from Host to Base to Terminal is fairly simple:
The RF Terminal ID is always the first byte and always only 1 character in length. There are 64 different possible values - 0-9 ,
A-Z, a-z, - and =.
The Command(s) section of the message always starts with the second byte and can consist of one or more commands - includ-
ing data to be displayed or voice messages to be broadcast.
The last byte is always ASCII 4 (EOT) to terminate the message.
Byte position
Function
1
RF Terminal ID
2+
Command(s)
Last
Termination of message
40
Possible values
0-9, A-Z, a-z, - =
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EOT (ASCII 4)

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