Appending Bar Code Control Characters - Intermec 6500 Technical Reference

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This section contains information about the scanner drivers
supported for the PEN*KEY

Appending Bar Code Control Characters

If you want an automatic carriage return or tab character
postfixed to the bar code for the system to automatically
jump the cursor to the next field, use this option to append
an automatic character to the bar code scanned. This al-
lows the operator to avoid touching the screen.
The SYSTEM.INI file has an option to append characters.
Below is a sample system.ini file adding a tab character:
; AppendCharacter determines if byte value AppendCharacterValue will be
; appended on to the end of each valid scan.
; AppendCharacter are: TRUE or FALSE.
; anything from 0 to 255.
AppendCharacter=TRUE
AppendCharacterValue=13
"13" is the ASCII value for Carriage Return.
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Default is not to append the character.
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Valid values for
The AppendCharacterValue can be
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