Unit installation

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060: Set Up Serial Port Options

This command allows you to turn several options on or off for the main serial port. It does not

affect the serial ports on the radio cards. Each of these options is discussed below.

The first is whether or not the serial port converts all characters that you type to upper case or not.

The default is to convert them, because all of the default command names are in upper case (they

must be to be executed by DTMF). Converting all of the characters makes it impossible to do a

few things however, such as programming serial messages that contain lower case letters.

The second allows you to choose whether the controller will send a carriage return and line feed at

the end of each line (the default) or just a carriage return. The latter might be useful in situations

where the line feed messes up a modem or packet radio. Most communications programs can

automatically add the line feeds back in when they receive a carriage return so that the screen will

scroll, rather than printing each line over top of the last one. If you are trying to make a modem

dial you, you will have to turn line feed sending off or when you send "ATDT<phone number>" the

controller will follow it with a CR/LF (carriage return and line feed). The CR will tell the modem

to start dialing. The LF will make it stop dialing - if a modem receives any characters from the

controller while it is dialing, it will abort.

The third determines whether serial messages that are generated by commands that are executed by

DTMF are suppressed or printed. If they are suppressed (the default), the only serial messages that

will be printed are: the reset/copyright message, serial responses to commands executed from the

serial port (not DTMF), and serial messages sent with Command 162.

The fourth is whether the serial is queued (buffered) or not. Normally it is buffered so that the

controller can continue to run while the serial is sent in the background. Occasionally, usually for

debugging purposes, you may want the serial to be sent before execution continues. In this case,

you can turn queuing off. It automatically gets turned on whenever the controller is reset.

<060> x y Set case sensitivity and line feeds.

<060> x y z Set case sensitivity, line feeds and suppression.

<060> x y z q Set case sensitivity, line feeds, suppression and queuing.

<060> 0 1 1 1 Set all settings to default values.

Parameters:

- 060 is the default command name.

- X is 1 to make the serial port case sensitive (no automatic conversion to upper case)

0 to make the serial port convert all characters entered to upper case

- Y is 1 to send line feeds (the default) or 0 to suppess them

- Z (optional) is 1 to suppress serial (the default) or 0 to send serial caused by commands

entered from DTMF

- Q (optional) is 1 for queued serial (the default) or 0 to send it before continuing