8. 
COMMUNICATIONS  USING  DEDICATED  PROTOCOLS 
8.15 
Loopback  Test 
(1) 
ACPU 
common  command 
Command 
8tah 
d 
PC  CPU 
NumW 
of 
PdnW 
Itom 
Sw- 
ASCII 
Processing 
During  RUN 
Prom8ood 
per 
bo1 
Code 
Communiea- 
During 
tlon 
sw2s  sw22 
STOP 
ON 
OFF 
Loopbeck 
tcwt 
Echoes  back  the  character6  to  the 
54H, 
54H 
computer 
8s 
thoy 
aro 
recoived 
254chaMCtera 
00 
0 
(2) 
Designating the loopback  test 
Derianatlon  Method 
I 
Designation in  protocol 
1 
is 
shown  below. 
Loopback  test command 
\ 
Character  area 
A 
Character area 
B 
POINT/ 
To 
set the characer length, the following  condition  must be met: 
0 
1 
s 
character length 
I 
254 
Derlgnation Example 
I 
To 
execute the loopback  test with the 
"ABCDE" 
at station  number 
"0". 
(Message wait  time 
is 
0 
msec.) 
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ri 
LI 
d 
Y 
4 
i 
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