User guide

MS-DMT Guide v1.04
Released 05-30-2014
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by the MS-DMT for later re-use by pressing the DataPort button, which pastes it into the MS-
DMT Outgoing Message window. 3rd party terminal applications may send unprintable
characters (between ASCII decimal 0-31) any such characters when pasted for sending or when
received will be automatically displayed as a box () character within the MS-DMT display.
NOTE: When making use of the serial Data Port with external applications, modem performance may
be adversely affected on older PC hardware and Operating Systems if the external application is run on
the same computer. With MS-Windows XP and Vista, the better the class of CPU and more available
RAM the better. The maximum amount of RAM the PC will support installed is recommend and if multi-
processor or multi core PC’s are being used, its best to dedicate one to the MS-DMT and the other to
the external terminal application using Process Affinity of CPU Pinning as appropriate and setting the
MS-DMT to operate at high priority. What is even better is to run both applications on different PC’s
using a null modem cable between two physical serial ports. For those running under emulations of
Windows under other operating systems it’s recommended that only the latest PC hardware, with
maximum amount of RAM be used to run both applications at the same time.