Chapter 4 _________________________________________________________________ Operation 
 
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Terminal Line Number Adjustment 
The command response printout can be adjusted to the screen size of the 
used terminal. This feature stops the printout every time the terminal 
screen is full. This is especially useful with the small screens of palm top 
computers. Without this feature the user will only see the bottom lines of 
long command responses such as the STATUS message. 
The terminal size adjustment is done with command 
SET TERMINAL_LINES number 
The standard PC terminal program has 24 visible lines. This is also the 
default value of the parameter. Minimum number is 5 lines. The value of 
this parameter has no effect on the message sending when the commands 
are given in the command polling format. 
Command Polling 
All commands can also be executed without opening the command line. 
This feature can be used in the host system, for example, for making 
automatic status message inquiries of active Warnings or Alarms. 
The general command polling format (with A as the unit ID) is 
FSA
&DO COMMAND
CSUM
 
where 
Start of the heading (ASCII 1) 
First character of the unit identifier, if the 
ID is not defined it is replaced by a space 
Start of the text (ASCII 2) 
End of the text (ASCII 3) 
End of the transmission (ASCII 4) 
Carriage Return (ASCII 13) 
 
The response for the command is similarly framed: 
FSA
FS11 RESPONSE
CSUM