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3-38 Equipment-to-Host Messages
Table 3-24 Spooling State Transitions
" NOTE The numbers in the # column refer to those in Figure 3-7.
# From Trigger To Description
1 Power On Equipment shutdown Power Off The Equipment may power off at any
time.
2 Power Off Equipment Startup History*
(Power On)
Equipment re-boots after a shutdown.
Spooling will continue according to its
state when the Equipment was powered
off.
3 Spool
Inactive
The Equipment
experiences a
transmission failure
and the variable
GemConfigSpool (VID
66) is set to “1”
(enabled).
Spool Active The Equipment will now start spooling
any messages which have been defined
by the Host. If the Host does not wish to
implement Spooling, the EC
GemConfigSpool should be set to “0” and
the spool state will never become active.
4 Default Entry into Spool
Active
No Spool
Output
No spooled messages are being read by
the Host.
5 Default Entry into Spool
Active
Spool Not
Full
The spool file has not yet filled up.
6 Spool Not
Full
The Equipment’s
spool has reached
capacity.
Spool Full The Equipment will start to either discard
new messages destined for the spool or
overwrite the beginning of the spool,
depending on the setting of
GemOverWriteSpool (VID 62).
7 Transmit
Spool
The Equipment has
de-spooled some
messages, but not all
have been sent to the
Host.
No Spool
Output
No spooled messages are being read by
the Host.
8 No Spool
Output
The Host has
requested spooled
messages to be sent
by sending S6F23.
Transmit
Spool
The Equipment will send messages
according to the setting of
GemMaxSpoolTransmit (VID 46). If
GemMaxSpoolTransmit is zero, all
messages will be sent, otherwise only the
number of messages specified in this
variable will be sent.
9 No Spool
Output
The Host requests the
Equipment to purge
its spool.
Purge Spool The Equipment will delete its spool.
10 Spool
Output
Entire spool has
either been read or
purged by the Host.
Spool
Inactive
The Equipment will continue normal
SECS communicating.