Intermec 6100 Reference Guide

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Applications that use drive tables may need to change the file maintenance done

after communications.  Applications which attempt to move files from one drive

to another, to conform to the drive table, should be changed to ignore drive D:,

which is the Flash, a readĆonly drive.

The 4805 Endcap Printer is not supported by the PEN*KEY 6000 Series ComĆ

puters.  Remove any code that is specific to the 4805 Printer.

References to COM3 must be changed.  On the 4000 Series, COM3 refers to the

same port as COM1, but ignores the modem control signals RTS and CTS.  INT

14h function 5, provided by 4000API.EXE, can ignore modem control signals on

COM1 when needed.
Remove any reference to internal modems for the 4000 Series.  This includes

turning on/off switch V+ (Norlib function NRSwitchVplus).
PEN*KEY 6000 Series applications can utilize PC modems.

It is important to remember that all variables lose their values when the 6100

Computer is reset.  Any information needed to recover from a reset must be writĆ

ten to a file so that it can be retrieved.

Verify that the memory requirements of the application can be met.  On the 4000

Series, it is possible to achieve executable memory sizes of greater than 640K.

This is not true on the PEN*KEY 6000 Series, which uses ROM DOS 5.  Because

of this, and due to differing system software requirements, some applications

could encounter problems of insufficient memory.

For maximum battery life, power to system components should be carefully

managed.  Drivers provided in the 6100 Tool Kit, such as PC4800.SYS and

MININET.EXE, turn power on as needed, but they restore power to its previous

state when finished.  Therefore, applications should initially turn power off to

certain components.  For example: COM ports, the LAN adapter, and the touch

screen.  NORDOSPM.EXE provides this capability, or the Norlib function

NRApmSetPower

 can be used within an application.  Refer to the Power

Management section of this publication.

Use Norlib V2.00 or greater (or prerelease V1.20) for the PEN*KEY 6000 Series

handĆheld computers.  NRCursorSet does not support a blinking cursor on

PEN*KEY 6000 Series Computer.

In the interest of maintaining a single set of source code for applications that reĆ

quire changes that are different for each platform, these changes should be imĆ

plemented using the ++ifdef" conditional compile facility of the PL/N compiler

preprocessor.  By convention, use ++ifdef 6000" to encase code that should exeĆ

cute only on a PEN*KEY 6000 Series system.  For further information on the

++ifdef" facility, refer to the PL/N 4000 Series Reference Manual, Volume 1.

In the HISTORY section, include explicit comments on changes and modules that

were changed.