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Chapter 5 : Using Processes
5.7.2. Serial Out
General introduction The Serial Out process allows you to create an output process that
sends data out a serial com port to an auxiliary device.
The format of the data to be sent is defined here.
Serial Out To send data to an auxiliary port, proceed as follows:
1 Add the process Serial Out to your label program
2 Select the Communication Port that this process will use to send
the data.
3 In the Start with box, click the appropriate character to be used
as the first character in the data stream to be transmitted :
None if you do not want to wait for a special start character.
STX if you want to wait for a Start of Text character.
4 In the End with box, click the appropriate character to be used to
terminate the data stream to be transmitted:
ETX if you want an End-of-Text character as the stop
character.
CR/LF if you want a Carriage Return/Line Feed as the stop
sequence.
5 In the Data area, select the variable(s) to send or type the text to
send.
6 Click OK
Example In this example, serial com 2 is used to send a stream of data. The
transmission begins with a start-of-text character followed by the
contents of the variables [E3], [E4], [E5], [E6] and [E7]. The
transmission is terminated with carriage return/line feed.
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