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Overview of Communication with Paging Terminal
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Remote Maintenance
This chapter describes the operation of ZlinkW; the full-duplex Zetron communications
program provided to remotely control your paging terminal.
Overview of Communication with Paging Terminal
The ZlinkW communications program is a full duplex, error correcting, multi-channel,
Zetron proprietary, communications package. It links your office computer to the 2000
Series Paging Terminal. The exclusive nature of the communications protocol used
insures that “computer hackers” cannot “break into” your paging terminal. Further, there
is a password to protect you, in the unlikely event that someone who has a copy of the
ZlinkW software, and knowledge of the maintenance port phone number for your paging
terminal, were to attempt to access your paging terminal, without your permission.
This section provides an overview of all the commands available in your paging terminal
via ZlinkW. The office computer software system, ZbaseW, utilizes ZlinkW to update the
subscriber, group, and message databases in the paging terminal and it also uses ZlinkW to
return call counts. All the commonly used ZlinkW commands are run automatically by
ZbaseW. However there are a few commands, such as setting the clock forward and
backward, which require ZlinkW to be run directly. From the Communications menu in
ZbaseW, selecting the ZlinkW option will run ZlinkW directly for you.
Once you are successfully connected to the 2000 Series Paging Terminal, ZlinkW will
display the “+” prompt. Then you can type in any of the ZlinkW commands described in
this chapter.