TERM.EXE - TERMINAL EMULATION PROGRAM FOR SERIAL PORTS IMPORTANT NOTE: The TERM program is supplied only as an aid for the initial setup of your BayTech unit and is not used in operations. This short program simply allows your PC to emulate a dumb terminal (in the event that you do not have your own terminal emulation software), thus allowing you to communicate more easily with the configuration mode of the BayTech unit. Once setup has been completed, this program is no longer used or needed unless further configuration changes of the unit are required at a later date. TERMINAL EMULATION INSTRUCTIONS Connect a cable between the COMX port of the PC (X = 1 or 2) and the configuration port of the BayTech unit. For configuration port, pinout and recommended cabling, see your Owner's Manual. Load DOS into system. Place BayTech software diskette into disk drive. There are three possible ways to load TERM from your system prompt: 1. Type TERM from your system prompt 2. Type TERM 1 from your system prompt 3. Type TERM 2 from your system prompt TERM defaults to COM1 at the parameters you have COM1 set up for in DOS when you type TERM from your system prompt. You may change the default settings for TERM by typing TERM 1 for COM1 or TERM 2 for COM2. Default parameters for COM1 and COM2 are dictated by your PC's initial setup. The program will respond with an identification block and then a configuration menu for the PC COM port. You are now in the dumb terminal mode. NOTE: Your BayTech unit powers-up from the factory at 9600 baud rate, 8 word size, 1 stop bit and no parity, with XON/XOFF disabled. If the PC COM port does not match this configuration, you may reconfigure the COM port by entering Alt-C and following the menu to set the port to match the baud rates, word size, stop bits, parity and handshaking of the BayTech unit. COM1 or COM2 may be selected. If no COM2 card is installed, the terminal emulation program will prevent you from selecting COM2. Once configuration of the PC COM port is complete, depress the Enter key, and you will return to the dumb terminal mode. If you entered TERM by typing TERM 1 from your system prompt, any changes made to COM1 will be retained when you enter TERM by typing TERM or TERM 1 from your system prompt. If you made any changes to COM2 when entering TERM by typing TERM 2 from your system prompt, these changes will be retained when you re-enter TERM by typing TERM 2 from your system prompt. Interface lines - RTS, CTS, DSR, DTR - between the PC and Your BayTech unit should be high. (Refer to upper right hand corner of the CRT for interface line status. These indicate the hardware handshaking line conditions as seen by the PC.) If these signals are not high at this point, check the cable. The DCD line is not looked at by the terminal emulation program. You are now in a dumb terminal or terminal emulation mode with full duplex communication. Any characters you type from the keyboard will be transmitted out of the PC COM port to the BayTech unit but will not appear on the CRT screen. Any characters received by the PC COM port from the BayTech unit will be displayed on the CRT screen. You may now reconfigure the BayTech unit from the keyboard of the PC. This is accomplished by sending Control-T followed by CAPITAL C (except Stat Mux). For the Stat Mux send Control-T only. The Control-T and capital C will not appear on the CRT screen, the BayTech unit will respond with a configuration menu. NOTE: Depressing the F1 key automatically sends this two- character sequence to the BayTech unit. The F1 key does not apply to Stat Mux and if the H Series control character has been changed. If no menus appear, this indicates that an incorrect character sequence has been received. If this occurs, resend Control-T and capital C manually or depress F1 key. You should also verify that your cables and configurations are correct. Continue following the menus. If you have any questions about this procedure, refer to the configuration section of the owner's manual. SMODE.EXE You may configure your PC com port to communicate at serial speeds up to 115.2K bits per second by using the SMODE.EXE program. SMODE is very similar to the MODE command in DOS. You should copy SMODE.EXE to your PC's root directory and then add - 2 - the SMODE command to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. See your DOS manual for instructions on editing your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The SMODE command has a maximum of 5 parameters: com port, baud rate, parity, word size, and stop bits. You may review various examples by typing SMODE from your system prompt. Valid com ports are COM1 through COM4. Valid baud rates are 50, 75, 110, 135, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, or 115200 bits per second. Valid parity is N for None, M for Mark, S for Space, E for even, and O for odd. Valid word sizes are 5, 6, 7, or 8 bits. Valid stop bits are 1 or 2 bits. PMODE.EXE The PMODE command has 6 parameters: LPT port, baud rate, parity, word size, stop bits, and Power-On respectively. For example, if you have the LPT assignment for the Tran-x LPT-460 assigned to LPT1 and you want to connect to the Tran-x SP-01 converter at 9600 baud rate, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity, you would include the following BayTech command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: PMODE LPT1:9600,n,8,1,on NOTE: There is only one space in the PMODE command, between PMODE and LPT. The PMODE command may be inserted in either upper or lower case. IMPORTANT: If you are connecting the Tran-x LPT-460 extender to the Tran-x SP-01 converter, you must enable Power-On by including the "on" parameter in the PMODE command. If you are not connecting to the Tran-x LPT-460 to the Tran-x SP-01, disable Power-On by including the "off" parameter in the PMODEcommand. In addition, when connecting to the Tran-x SP-01, the parity, word size, and stop bits must be set to none, 8, and 1 respectively and the baud rate parameter must match the baud rate setting for the Tran-x SP-01. NOTE: A serial configuration of 7 data bits and no parity requires the number of stop bits to be 2 in the event you are not connecting to the Tran-x SP-01 and wish to use parity. You must have your computer direct its output to the appropriate LPT port when you wish to transmit data via the Tran-x LPT-460 - 3 - card. This is typically accomplished by having your application package(s) direct the output to the correct LPT port. LPTSTAT.EXE INSTRUCTIONS The LPTSTAT.EXE program is an executable file that performs diagnostics on your PC's LPT ports. This program is used in conjunction with the Tran-x LPT-460. To run LPTSTAT.EXE, insert the supplied diskette in your floppy drive or copy LPTSTAT.EXE to your PC's hard drive and type LPTSTAT from the DOS prompt. When LPTSTAT.EXE is executed, a menu will appear which shows you ports LPT1, LPT2, and LPT3 followed by the I/O address and status of any I/O cards you have installed which address an LPT port. If a particular LPT port is not being used, the message "LPTx does not exist" will appear next to that LPT port. You should configure the Tran-x LPT-460 to communicate with an LPT port that does not exist by setting the DIP switch as described in the Owner's Manual for the LPT-460. FPRINT.EXE The FPRINT.EXE program is an executable file that optimizes the parallel printer speed of your PC. To run FPRINT.EXE, first copy the file to your PC's root directory (or subdirectory) and then add the command FPRINT to your PC's AUTOEXEC.BAT file. When FPRINT.EXE is executed, a menu will appear similar to the following: BayTech 1992 Parallel Print Program Sending file to I/O Address: 3bc Usage: fprint [filename.ext][portnum] Example: fprint graphic.1st 1 - for LPT1 fprint graphic.1st 2 - for LPT2 fprint graphic.1st 3 - for LPT3 fprint graphic.1st defaults to LPT1 - 4 - Program sends files to LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3 LPT1, LPT2, and LPT3 I/O addresses are calculated by looking at: memory locations 0:408, 0:40A and 0:40C for LPT1, LPT2 and LPT3. If your computer does not support these addresses for the location of your parallel ports, this program will not work with your computer. PARSEND.EXE - TERMINAL EMULATOR FOR PARALLEL PORTS IMPORTANT NOTE: The PARSEND program is supplied only as an aid for initial setup of Print Master 706A/Laser Share 4A and is not used in operations. Connect a computer such as an IBM PC or compatible to the configuration Port of Print Master 700A/Laser Share 4A. Connect a printer to Port 1 of Print Master Model 700A. For pinout and recommended cabling, see your Print Master Owner's Manual. Since configuration must be performed through a parallel port and since communication is only one-way, configuration menus must necessarily be sent out to the printer connected. All configuration changes must be made through the configuration port. The computer must be in a mode that allows characters to be sent from the keyboard to the parallel port. There are two methods of accomplishing this for an IBM PC or compatible. METHOD FOR USE WITH MS DOS Load the MS DOS program. Load the support software diskette supplied by BayTech. Type PARSEND in response to system prompt. You are now in a mode where anything typed from the keyboard will go through the parallel port of the PC. The program will respond with: +--------[ PARSEND V1.2 ]--------+ | | | BayTech Command:[ ] | | | | F1 - Send ^TC | | F10 - Exit | | | +--------------------------------+ Send from the keyboard Control-T (that is, ^T) followed by capital ASCII C. This will be echoed on the CRT screen one character at a time. The configuration mode of Print Master - 5 - Model 700A is now accessed. Configuration menus and responses to entries will be sent to the printer connected. NOTE: Depressing the function key automatically sends this two-character sequence to the BayTech unit. For Laser Share 4A the function key must be used exclusively to access configuration mode. When configuration is complete, depress function key, and you will be returned to DOS system prompt. METHOD FOR USE WITH MS BASIC (Not for use with Laser Share 4A) Load the MS BASIC program. Then enter this program: 10 A$=INKEY$:IF A$="" THEN 10 20 IF A$="!" THEN SYSTEM 30 LPRINT A$;:GOTO 10 Then type RUN. You are now in a mode where anything typed from the keyboard will go through the parallel port of the PC. There is no prompt from the program. Send from the keyboard Control-T followed by ASCII capital C. The configuration mode of Print Master Model 700A is now accessed. Configuration menus and responses to entries will be sent to the printer connected. When configuration is complete, type ! and you will be returned to MS DOS system prompt. - 6 -