Specifications

C Command - Counter
Description The coun ter (C) com mand de fines one of 10 au -
to matic coun ters used in con sec u tive num ber -
ing ap pli ca tions (i.e. se rial num bers). Coun ters
must be de fined af ter vari ables.
For Numeric Serialization Only. The counter
function does not support Alpha or Alpha-Numeric
Serialization.
Syntax Cp
1
, p
2
, p
3
, p
4
, “[-]PROMPT”
Parameters p
1
= Coun ter num ber. Range: 0 to 9
p
2
= Max i mum num ber of dig its for coun ter.
Range: 1 to 29
p
3
= Field Jus ti fi ca tion.
L = Left R = Right
C = Cen ter N = No Jus ti fi ca tion
p
4
= Step Value. + or - sign fol lowed by a
sin gle digit of 1 - 9. Using a step value
of +0 al lows the coun ter to be used as
an ad di tional vari able data field.
“PROMPT”= An ASCII text field that will be
trans mit ted to the KDU or host (via the
se rial in ter face) each time the com mand
is ex e cuted. Typically used to re quest
the op er a tor to en ter a start ing coun ter
value.
KDU Prompt
Options
[-] = Hav ing the first char ac ter of the prompt
a sin gle mi nus sign will cause the
prompt to dis play only once af ter form
re trieval.
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