Communications 95
Burford
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TERMINAL program
Burford
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Corp. has developed a terminal emulation program specifically for use with the
Model 2000/2100 Servo Tyer. This program is simply called Terminal.exe and it provides
the simplest and easiest way of communicating with the Servo Tyer controller and
capturing data to files. The program is already configured for 4800 Baud, Even Parity, 8
Data Bits and 1 Stop Bit. It is also configured to use the COM1 serial port of the PC, which
usually has a male DB9 connector. Any of these settings can be changed as necessary.
This TERMINAL program is available on CD from Burford
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Corp. ask for Part Number
C01287.
The Servo Tyer controller automatically sends information to the serial port, some of
which is intended to be displayed on an optional operator display provided by Burford
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Corp. The Burford
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Terminal program has been written to recognize the format of these
statements and it displays them in a box near the bottom of the screen, away from the
other output. Any other terminal emulation program cannot distinguish these statements
and they appear on the screen among all the other text.
The Terminal program can be run from a floppy drive or from the hard disk of the PC. To
start the program with the default settings, simply change to the directory containing the
Terminal.exe file and type: Terminal.
With the Terminal program running, you can press Alt-h for help on the proper command
to use if you need to use a different baud rate or a different serial port. The help screen
will show you, for instance, that to start the Terminal program with a setting of 9600 baud
instead of the normal 4800 baud, type: TERMINAL B9600 at the DOS command prompt.
You can exit the program at any time by pressing Alt-x.
You will not be able to see anything that you type on the screen until the Servo Tyer is
running. This is because the Servo Tyer controller must echo your typed commands back
to the PC before they will be displayed.
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