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Configure Serial Device Port Dialog Box

How do I get to this dialog box?

The Configure button from the Terminal Setup Advanced Options dialog box is equivalent to the Configure button from the Logging Settings dialog box. You can use the button from either dialog box to configure your serial device port.

From the Logging dialog box

  1. Open a VT terminal session.

  2. Open the Logging Settings dialog box as follows:

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.

    User interface Mode Steps
    Ribbon From the Tools tab, in the Logging group, click the dialog box launcher next to Logging.
    Reflection Browser In the search box, enter Land then, under Actions, select Logging.
    TouchUx Tap the Wrench icon and then, under Logging, select Logging.

  3. Under Log output to, click the Configure button.

From the Terminal Setup dialog box

  1. Open a VT terminal session and then open the Settings dialog box.

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.

    User Interface Mode Steps
    Ribbon or Reflection Browser With a session open in Reflection, from the Quick Access Toolbar, click .
    TouchUx Tap the Gear icon and then select Document Settings.

  2. Under Terminal Configuration, click Select Terminal Type.

  3. Under Terminal Settings, click Terminal Setup.

  4. Click the Advanced button.

  5. Next to the Serial device to host check box, click the Configure button.

The options are:

Setting Description
Port Select the communications port to which your target serial device is connected.
Baud rate Set the rate at which Reflection transmits and receives data through the selected serial port. The baud rate setting must match the baud rate of your direct connection.
Parity Set the parity for data transmission to and from the serial device on this port.
This setting determines whether a parity bit is generated for each character transmitted. Parity is used to detect errors in data transmission; the number preceding the slash indicates the number of data bits sent.
To use the multinational character set or 8-bit controls, Parity must be set to one of the values that offers 8-bit controls. If your communications link generates parity, and you set Parity to 8/None, multinational characters appear on your screen. In this case, set Parity to either 8/Even or 8/Odd.

Pacing

It is possible for Reflection to transmit data to a serial device faster than the device can process it, or for a serial device to transmit data to Reflection faster than Reflection can process it.

Should this continue for too long, the slower system's buffer overflows and data is lost. If the serial device recognizes the XON/XOFF handshake, you can prevent the buffer from overflowing by keeping this value set to Xon/Xoff.

Xon/Xoff transmit pacing works as follows:

  • When the receive buffer has a limited amount of space left, an XOFF (DC3) character is sent as a signal to stop transmitting.

  • After processing most of the backlog of characters in the receive buffer, an XON (DC1) character is sent as a signal to resume transmission.

The two systems continue in this stop-and-go fashion until all the data has been transmitted.

If Hardware is selected, the RTS and CTS pins on the RS-232 serial cable control data flow.

Setting Description
Transmit Select a flow control method to use when Reflection transmits data to a serial device on this port.
Receive Select a flow control method to use when the serial device on this port transmits data to Reflection.

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