User's Manual

545C Operations Manual

02/10/2012 Prerelease DCN 00001789-A

Viewing the generic device driver setup

Enter the GENERIC command with no parameters to display the current

setup for all active ports. The following example response shows a typical

setup with only port 2 set up for generic operation.

+generic 12/11/01 10:54:32

Rpt Group................... Date......... Time......... Sensor.......

P Type Type N L# S E Scale Type L# S E Type L# S E Type L# S E

= ==== ===== == == == == ===== ==== == == == ==== == == == ==== == == ==

2 LINE FIXED 02 00 00 00 0.058 LINE 01 10 16 LINE 01 18 25 LINE 02 22 32

Report:DATE/TIME: Date:YY/MM/DD Time:HH:MM:SS

From the report one can see that only port 2 is configured, and the other

ports have a report type of OFF. The Group section has 5 fields: Type,

Number, Line number, Start column, End column, and Scale factor. This

line shows the group is fixed at group number 2. The Date, Time and Sensor

sections each have 4 fields: Type, Line number, Start column, End column.

The date is on line 1 between columns 10 and 16. The time is on line 1

between columns 18 and 25. The first sensor value is on line 2 between

columns 22 and 23, and the remaining lines of the report will each contain

1 sensor value between columns 22 and 23. The sensor values can be scaled

by the multiplying factor shown in the Scale column. (The default scale is

“1”.)

The line following the port 2 line shows additional options for that port.

Shown here are the start-of-report string, the date format, and the time

format. Only options selected will be shown on this line. All of the settings

in this generic driver table are saved in the non-volatile memory of the

MCC-545C.

Report Type: GENERIC,P,TYPE,{AUTO,LINE,OFF}

This command selects whether the report is in a single-line format or

multiple-line format. AUTO specifies single-line with free format, and LINE

specifies the multiple-line format. The OFF option is provided to turn off a

previously set-up port.

Reports are parsed from sets (bursts) of characters read into a 1024 byte

buffer. The end of the data set will be signaled by a timeout period with no

more characters being received. The timeout is taken from the ASSIGN