Extended Commands—Chapter 7
317TE 2000
5250 Terminal Emulation Programmer’s Guide
Tone (#T)
TheToneextendedcommandcausestheterminaltomakeatoneofaspe-
cified volume, frequency, and length ().
Note: For Trakker Antares terminals, volume and frequency are ignored.
The v olume is user-selectable via the Trakker Antares firmware menus.
The frequency is set to 1200 Hz.
Thefollowingtabledescribesthelineandcolumnswherecharactersmust
appear, and their meanings. Note that a “b”indicatesa1-bytespace.
Tone Options — Line 1, Columns 2–12
Column Description Character
2 Extended command #
3 Tone command T
4–6 Volume bbb=No change from current setting;
000–255=Range from quiet to loud
7–9 Frequency bbb=No change from current setting;
000–030=Range from low to high
10–12 Length bbb=No change from current setting; 001–010=Du ration
in 500 ms from short to long (keyboard response time)
Thereturncodeisthestatussenttothehostcomputer;thecodeindicates
if the extended command was successful. The terminal returns data and
the extended command’s status to the host computer in the
\\X<CR>
for-
mat. X is the return code listed in the following chart.
Code Description Column
0 Good status, transaction complete. (None)
8 Incorrect setting for volume. 4–6
9 Incorrect se tting for frequency. 7–9
A Incorrect setting for length. 10–12
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