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Reader Manager Guide Page 19 of 62 40-10-006-DOC 15/09/2006
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Show Commands Sent if ticked will enable the display of all commands sent from this application in
any window to the reader. This is an excellent diagnostic tool if you are seeing error messages from
the reader in response to a command or you just want to see how the various tools work by looking at
what they send.
• Show Messages enables the display of all other messages that the reader sends. This includes error
messages, so normally it is advisable to never turn this option off.
• Open Log File... controls the facility to record all the text that appears in this window into a file.
When this option is selected, a file open dialog will appear, allowing you to select the directory and
filename to use.
If the log filename you have selected already exists, you will be prompted to either Replace (overwrite)
or Keep (append to the end of the file) the log file. This message also shows how large the file currently
is in bytes.
While the log file is open, this menu item will change to Close Log File(xxxx) with the name of the log
file shown within the parenthesis. Selecting this option will close the log file. When running this
application under Windows, the log file contents will not appear complete if viewed with an outside
application until the file is closed or the application exited. This is the behaviour of Windows itself with
open files. This does not occur when run under Unix systems.
Note that if a log file is open when the ReaderManager is exited, it will be reopened when it is started
the next time.