NCR RealScan 7837-3000 - Chapter 4: Data Editiing; Prefix;Suffix Overview; Points to Keep in Mind

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Chapter 4: Data Editiing
Prefix/Suffix Overview
Whenabarcodeisscanned,additionalinformationissenttothehost
computeralongwiththebarcodedata.Thisgroupofbarcodedata
andadditionaluser‐defineddataiscalleda“messagestring.”The
selectionsinthissectionareusedtobuildtheuser‐defineddataintothe
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messagestring.
PrefixandSuffixcharactersaredatacharactersthatcanbesentbefore
andafterscanneddata.Youcanspecifyiftheyshouldbesentwithall
symbologies,oronlywithspecificsymbologies.Thefollowing
illustrationshowsthebreakdownofamessagestring:
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• Itisnotnecessarytobuildamessagestring.Theselectionsin
thischapterareonlyusedifyouwishtoalterthedefau
settings.Defaultprefix=None.Defaultsuffix=None.
Aprefixorsuffixmaybeaddedorclearedfromonesymbology
orallsymbologies.
YoucanaddanyprefixorsuffixfromtheASCIIConversion