Program instructions   
7.3 Communication 
  S7-200 SMART 
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Any character: 
The Receive instruction can be configured to immediately start receiving 
any and all characters and placing them in the message buffer. This is a special case of 
the idle line detection. In this case the idle line time (SMW90 or SMW190) is set to zero. 
This forces the Receive instruction to begin receiving characters immediately upon 
execution. 
 
Setup: il = 1, sc = 0, bk = 0, SMW90/SMW190 = 0, SMB88/SMB188 = don't care  
 
Starting a message on any character allows the message timer to be used to time out the 
receiving of a message. This is useful in cases where Freeport is used to implement the 
master or host portion of a protocol and there is a need to time out if no response is 
received from a slave device within a specified amount of time. The message timer starts 
when the Receive instruction executes because the idle line time was set to zero. The 
message timer times out and terminates the receive message function if no other end 
condition is satisfied.  
 
Setup: il = 1, sc = 0, bk = 0, SMW90/SMW190 = 0, SMB88/SMB188 = don't care, c/m = 1, 
tmr = 1, SMW92 = message timeout in milliseconds