Commissioning
MCS100E Operating Instructions 8009504/VYWA7/V3-1/2018-01 © SICK AG 39
Subject to change without notice
4.2 External keyboard
To ease the entry of rather large volumes of data a standard type external keyboard can be
attached to the keyboard connector (DIN-connector with 5 poles) at the door.
4.2.1 Country-specific assignment of keys
Depending on the type of external keyboard attached, it may be necessary to adjust the
country-specific assignment of keys.
1 Switch MCS100E off and then on again.
2 Abort automatic start after query <Start Program Y/N> (
→
p. 45, §5.3.3)
3 If you want to remain at DOS level for more than 4 minutes: Disable the watchdogs
(
→
p. 109, §7.8).
4 Start the “Norton Commander” at DOS level with: <c:\nc>
Note: Switch MCS100E off and on again before selecting the “Norton Commander”.
5 In the “Autoexec.bat” file (<F4>):
–Insert “rem(blank)” before the line with the previous language and
– delete “rem” before the line with the desired language.
Example: After switching from German (gr) to English (us):
– rem C:\dos\keyb gr,,c:\dos\keyboard.sys
– C:\dos\keyb\ us,,c:\dos\keyboard.sys
6 If required, enable watchdogs again (
→
p. 109, §7.8).
7 Exit the “Norton Commander”.
8 Start the measurement program with 1.bat (
→
p. 45, §5.3.2).
4.3 Language selection of the MCS program
The language of the MCS program is set:
• In the MCSCONF configuration program “Directories and Files”
• In the measurement sequence program in menu option Specialist: Utilities: Service:
Environment Configuration: Text file.
4.4 Display setup
• Setting in the measurement program: (
→
p. 92, §5.7.15.7.1)
• Setting via external keyboard:
– CTRL ALT +
– CTRL ALT –
The settings are not saved.
To enable the display of country-specific characters on the screen, country-
specific code pages must be loaded. This task should only be carried out by a
specialist who is well-acquainted with MS-DOS.
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