Unit installation

17-3
RLC-3 V1.80 Copyright © 1998 Link Communications Inc. 9/17/98
078: Set Command Entry Options for a Port
This command allows you to specify several options concerning how the controller will process the
characters you enter.
<078> p Recall Settings
<078> p c Set Chaining
<078> p c t Set Chaining and
Timed Execution
<078> p c t e Set All Options
Parameters:
- 078 is the default command name.
- P is the port for which to change the options
- 1..8 indicate the corresponding port
- 9 indicates the serial port
- C is the chaining control. This variable allows your commands to be chained together. Must be
entered but is ignored for the serial port.
- 1 Enables command chaining
- 0 Disables command chaining (the default)
- T is the timed execution. This variable allows timed execution of commands entered. Must be
entered but is ignored for the serial port.
- 1 Enables timed execution
- 0 Disables timed execution (the default)
- E (optional) is the new force-execution digit (default is 'D' for radio ports, '!' for the serial port).
Command Chaining:
Normally the controller considers everything you enter before unkeying or pressing 'D' or the enter
key to be one command. If there are more characters that it knows what to do with, it generates an
error message and discards the command. The chaining option lets you enter more than one
command at a time, executing all of them at once when you unkey. This can cause problems when
it is ambiguous where one command ends and the next begins, but may be useful in some cases.
With the chaining option turned on, the controller will let you chain on another command without
unkeying after any command that always takes the same number of digits. This includes all of the
macros and a lot of the commands numbered 000 to 199 (those which never take any digits after
the command name). Of the remaining commands numbered between 000 and 199, you can find
out which commands can have another command come immediately after them by looking them up
with command 011; if it does not say "variable", you can enter another command after it. If
command 011 does say "variable", that command must be the only command entered or the last
command in a chain of commands. It is recommended that you leave this option turned off unless
you have a specific reason to turn it on. This option is not available (the setting is ignored) for
commands entered from the serial port.