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Scanner SupportChapter —6
230 700 Series Color Mobile Computer User’s Manual
Tethered Scanner
The Intermec Tethered Scanner feature accepts data from the COM1 port
wedges it to the keyboard interface, and allows some ADC. This feature
can be enabled or disabled from the Today Screen on the 700 Series Com-
puter.
Enabling and Disabling
On the 700 Series Computer, tap Start → Today. Tap the bar code scan-
ner icon in the System Tray (circled in the following illustration). Initially,
the bar code scanner icon indicates that this feature is disabled (shown to
the left).
S Select Comm Port Wedge to send any data, coming into the 700 Series
Computer through the COM1 port from an external input device, as
keyboard data to an application on the desktop.
For example, if you have Pocket Word running on your 700 Series
Computer desktop, information scanned with a scanner connected to
the COM1 port will appear in the Word document. If another data
collection application is running and is active on the 700 Series Com-
puter, the scanned information will appear in that application.
Note: When Comm Port Wedge is selected, regardless of the data sent by
the external input device, you cannot control the device or the data format
using any of the Intermec scanner control or data transfer APIs from the
SDK or the internal Data Collection software. The external input device is
governed by what software it has onboard to tell it how to scan, take pic-
tures, or send the data elsewhere.