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5. Click ‘OK’. The system stores these values and they will be used whenever
Crosscut for Win is started in the future.
6. Connect the COM cable to the PC, then connect to the controller.
Capturing Data Files with Crosscut for Win
1. Start Crosscut for Win.
2. To capture a data file after a deployment select ‘Terminal’ from the menu bar and
‘Capture Setup’ from the submenu.
3. Enter a Capture file name in the box and select Overwrite or Append. Overwrite
replaces any information in an existing log file. Append adds new information to
an existing file (choose carefully!).
4. Click ‘OK’.
5. Start ‘File → Capture’. Everything that appears in the Crosscut for Win window
is written to the file.
IMPORTANT
In Crosscut for Win, File→ Capture must be manually switched on using Step 5. Confirm that
the ‘Capture’ box in the lower left of the Crosscut for Win display is ‘on’ and is highlighted in
Yellow.
6. Toggle file logging by selecting ‘File’ and ‘Capture’ again.
7. To exit Crosscut for Win select ‘File’ from the menu bar and ‘Exit’ from the
submenu.
The format of the captured data file is ASCII text (you should use the extension .TXT for
the file name). ASCII text files can be read by word processors and text editors.
Crosscut for Win requires you to supply a name for the log file the first time the capture
utility is called during a Crosscut for Win session. That name then becomes the default for the
remainder of the session. The file can be renamed after capture on the hard disk of the PC.
Connecting the MMP to a PC
When you connect a DB-9 or DB-25 connector to the serial port of a PC, rocking the
connector back and forth can cause a Comm Port Crash in the TT8v2. If a crash occurs, you must
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