PSC TopGun User Manual

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Transferring Data With PSC Utilities
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PT2000™ & TopGun™
s
performs the transfer “silently” (without displaying received 
data on the screen).
h
displays help on program usage and options.
For example: 
updtfer
 
/dev/tty2a
 
readin.dat
 
-r
 would receive 
data from a portable connected to a serial port named /dev/tty2a and 
place data in a file named 
readin.dat
.
The 
UPDTFER
 program has the following settings. The portable's 
communications settings must match.
z
Baud rate
9600
z
Stop bits
1
z
Data bits
8
z
Parity
None
z
Flow control
ACK/NAK
; no 
XON/XOFF
The 
UPDTFER
 program returns an exit status of 0 if the transfer is 
successful. If the transfer is unsuccessful, it returns a nonzero status, such 
as 1.
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