Envoy Application Programming Manual

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Software Concepts
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File-System Procedures
CONTROL
DEFINELIST
DEVICEINFO
FILEINFO
HALTPOLL
OPEN
READ[X]
SETMODE
SETMODENOWAIT
WRITE[X]
WRITEREAD[X]
For further information on how these file-system procedures can be used with Envoy, see
Appendix C, File-System Procedures
.
The most frequently used procedures are summarized here:
CHANGELIST
For a multipoint supervisor station, CHANGELIST enables or disables the polling
of a particular station. For a multipoint tributary station, CHANGELIST switches
the particular station to an active or inactive state.
CLOSE
Terminates access to a communications line or to an automatic calling unit.
CONTROL
Performs a variety of line control operations such as setting data terminal ready
(DTR), sending an EOT character, disconnecting the line, signaling a temporary text
delay, and so on.
DEFINELIST
For a multipoint supervisor station, DEFINELIST designates the polling and
selection addresses of each tributary station in the network. For a multipoint
tributary station, DEFINELIST designates the polling and selection addresses to
which the station responds.
HALTPOLL
For a multipoint supervisor station, HALTPOLL halts continuous polling that was
started by a nowait READ call. To restart the nowait READ, the READ procedure
must be called again.
OPEN
Provides access to a data communications line or to an automatic calling unit.