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TRANS (Transparent) Mode
A second way to transmit data is to instruct the KPC-3 Plus to ignore the ―control
characters‖ (e.g., ―backspace‖) and just transmit every character as data. This is called
the ―TRANS‖ (transparent) mode of communication. For example, if data received by
the KPC-3 Plus for transmission in TRANS mode includes ―backspace‖ characters (i.e.,
characters that would cause a backspace in CONVERS mode), the KPC-3 Plus will
transmit the backspace characters as part of the data.
Before you can switch to TRANS mode, you need to set INTFACE to TERMINAL
instead of NEWUSER. (This is because, as described in the next section, the
TRANS command is not a NEWUSER command.) To get out of TRANS mode and
back to COMMAND mode, enter ―<Ctrl+C> three times, with a pause of less than
one second between each entry.
NEWUSER Commands
You have a choice of whether to have your KPC-3 Plus prepared to deal with a small
set of (22) NEWUSER commands (which is the default setting) or with the full set of
over 130 commands it is capable of carrying out.
Note: To switch to the full command set of the KPC-3 Plus, get in COMMAND Mode
(<Ctrl+C>) and give the command INTFACE TERMINAL. To switch back, give the
command INTFACE NEWUSER.
List of NEWUSER Commands
The following is an alphabetical listing of the 22 NEWUSER commands and a brief
description of each.
BKONDEL - When ON echoes a backspace-space-backspace sequence to the screen
each time you press the DELETE key to erase errors from your screen. When OFF,
echoes a \ for each press of the DELETE key.
CONNECT - Used to establish a packet connection with another station.
CONVERS - Places the KPC-3 Plus in CONVERS mode.
DISCONNE - Used to disconnect from a station you have been talking to.
DAYTIME - Used to read or set the clock in the KPC-3 Plus.
DELETE - Determines the character received from the computer which will cause the
previous character to be removed from the transmit buffer.
DISPLAY - Causes a screen display of all KPC-3 Plus parameters.
DWAIT - Time delay imposed to insure that digipeaters have priority access to the radio
frequency.
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