User's Manual

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 Keep in mind that if a Terminal has SIGNED OUT in mid-
transaction, the Base Station clears any pending message for that
Terminal before it will allow it to SIGN ON again. Make
allowances to re-send messages or prompts that were cleared upon
SIGN ON if necessary.
 If a Base Station has a hardware failure, neither the Terminal nor
the host computer will be able to communicate with it. When the
Base Station comes back on-line, it sends a “Base Station
Initialized” message back to the host, letting the host know that it
must re-initialize all Terminals and pick up any incomplete
transactions.
Operator Errors
 Plan on your operator walking out of range and going to lunch in
the middle of a transaction. What do you do with the data you do
have, and where are you going to start up again?
 Let’s say your operator is SIGNED ON and decides it’s time to
take a break. Instead of pressing the F1 key to SIGN OUT, he
presses the OFF key. Pressing the OFF key is OK (it will SIGN
him OUT) but there is a delay until the SIGN OUT is
acknowledged. Because of the delay, the operator might think he
didn’t press the key hard enough and press it again - this time
actually powering down the Terminal before the SIGN OUT was
complete. If this happens, you need to plan to re-send the last
prompt to the Terminal when he SIGNs ON again.