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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Direct Access to RS232 Controllers</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>Direct Access to RS232 Controllers</H1>
<P>
Usually serial ports are accessed by SICS through David Maden's
SerPortServer program which then communicates with a terminal server
box through the TCP/IP network. This limits the amount of control over
the controller. If more control is required, the RS232 controllers can
be accessed directly from SICS through the terminal server, thereby
bypassing the SerPortServer program. Please note, that these two modes
of operation are mutually exclusive: a given port can either be
accessed through the mechanism described here OR through
SerPortServer.
</P>
Before being able to use this system, the RS232 controller has to be
configured into SICS as described in the hardware initialization
section through the following command in the initialization file:
<pre>
MakeRS232Controller name terminalserver port
</pre>
For example:
<pre>
MakeRS232Controller hugo psts213 3004
</pre>
name is the SICS name for the controller, terminalserver is the name
of the terminal server the device is connected to and port is the port
number at which the terminal server publishes the RS232 channel to
which the device is connected. This is usally the port number plus 3000.
</p>
<p>
Now various commands are available for interfacing with the RS232
controller. In the following description the SICS name of the
controller is replaced by the symbol rs232name.
<dl>
<dT>rs232name sendterminator
<dD>prints the current terminator used when sending data to the device
as hexadecimal numbers.
<dT>rs232name sendterminator h1h2..hn
<dD>sets the current terminator used when sending data to the device
to the characters described by the hexadecimal numbers h1 to hn. The
numbers are in the format 0xval, where val is the hex number.
<dT>rs232name replyterminator
<dD>prints the current terminator expected to terminate a response
from the device as a hexadecimal number.
<dT>rs232name replyterminator h1h2..hn
<dD>sets the current terminator expected to terminate a response from
the device to the characters described by the hexadecimal numbers h1
to hn.
The numbers are in the format 0xval, where val is the hex number.
<dt>rs232name timeout
<dd>prints the current timeout when waiting for a reponse from the
device.
<dt>rs232name timeout val
<dd>sets the timeout for waiting for responses from the device. The
value is in microseconds.
<dt>rs232name send data data data
<dd>sends the remainder of the line to the RS232 device and waits for
a response terminated with the proper reply terminator specified. This
commands waits at maximum timeout microseconds for a response. If a
valid response is obtained it is printed, otherwise an error message
occurs.
<dt>rs232name write data data data
<dd>writes the remainder of the line after write to the device without
waiting for a response.
<dt>rs232 available
<dd>checks if data is pending to be read from the device.
<dt>rs232 read
<dd>reads data from the device.
</dl>
</p>
</BODY>
</HTML>