Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] hydrapath 3 data transmission ???

R Rogers wrote:

>Hi Jon,
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> It takes either or. After reading the replies, sounds like a rather involved task.
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> Jon Elson <elson@...> wrote:
> rogersmach wrote:
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>Are you sure it takes ASCII? Some of the really old controls only accepted
>EIA code, or could be ordered with one or the other, not both. If it had a
>6-channel paper tape reader, that infers EIA code only.
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OK, then, you need to send a particular character that identifies the
character code to
the control. If it doesn't see that character, it ignores everything.
It is often the "%"
character that is used for this purpose. One of the reasons for this is
so that the
part number or description could be punched in human-readable form of
holes in
the begnning of the tape.

Jon