PacComm TINY-2 - Page 101

PACKET
CONTROLLER
COMMANDS
Command
List
TRACe
Command
Continued)
address
field
will
be
displayed
correctly
in
the
shifted
ASCH
column.
A
text
message
will
be
displayed
correctly
in
the
ASCII
column,
Non-
rinting
characters
and
control
characters
are
dis-
played
in
both
ASCII
fields
as
“.”.
You
can
examine
the
hex
display
field
to
see
the
sub-station
ID
byte
and
the
protocol
control
bytes.
This
is
an
immediate
command.
It
causes
the
packer
controller
to
exit
from
Command
Mode
into
Transparent
ode.
The
current
link
state
is
not
affected.
Transparent
Mode
is
primarily
useful
for
computer
communications.
In
this
mode,
the
“human
interface”
features
such
as
input
editing
capability,
echoing
of
input
charac-
ters,
and
type-in
flow
contro
disabled.
'ON_-
Transparent
Mode
terminal
flow
control
can
be
enabled.
(OFF
-
Transparent
Mode
software
flow
control
is
disabled.
If
TRFlow
is
ON,
the
settings
of
STArt
and
STOp
are
used
to
determine
the
type
of
flow
control
used
in
Transparent
Mode.
If
TRFlow
is
OFF,
only
hardware
flow
control
is
available
to
the
computer
and
all
characters
received
by
the
packet
controller
are
transmitted
as
data.
If
STArt
and
STOp
are
set
to
$00,
disablin
the
User
Stop
and
User
Restart
characters,
hardware
flow
contro
must
always
be
used
by
the
computer.
If
TRFlow
is
ON,
and
STArt
and
STOp
are
non-zero,
software
flow
control
is
enabled
for
the
user’s
computer
or
terminal.
The
packet
controller
will
respond
to
the
User’s
Restart
and
User’s
top
characters
(set
by
STArt
and
STop)
while
remaining
transparent
to
all
other
characters
from
the
terminal.
Unless
low
is
also
ON,
only
hardware
flow
control
is
available
to
the
packet
controller
to
control
output
from
the
terminal.
in
the
RETRY
level
on
the
current
stream.
Tecwweenvevenanmeeneer
.
This
command
is
used
to
retrieve
(or
force)
the
count
of
“tries”
on
the
currently
selected
input
stream.
When
used
with
no
argument:
if
the
packet
controller
has
an
outstanding
unacknowledged
frame,
it
will
return
the
current
number
of
tries;
if
the
packet
controller
has
no
outstandin,
unacknowledged
frames,
it
will
return
the
number
of
tries
whic
were
required
to
obtain
an
acknowledgment
for
the
previous
frame.
If
REtry
is
set
to
0,
the
value
returned
by
issuing
a
TRies
command
will
always
be
0.
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Operating
Manual,
4th
Ed.
©
PacComm,
1990