Honeywell 1202g2 Manual

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Data Editing
Prefix/Suffix Overview
When a bar code is scanned, additional information is sent to the host computer along with the bar code data.  This group of bar 
code data and additional, user-defined data is called a “message string.”  The selections in this section are used to build the 
user-defined data into the message string.
Prefix and Suffix characters are data characters that can be sent before and after scanned data.  You can specify if they should 
be sent with all symbologies, or...

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Example: Add a Tab Suffix to All Symbologies
Step 1.Scan Add Suffix.
Step 2.Scan 9, 9 from the Programming Chart inside the back cover of this manual to apply this suffix to all symbologies.
Step 3.Scan 0, 9 from the Programming Chart inside the back cover of this manual. This corresponds with the hex value 
for a horizontal tab, shown in the ASCII Conversion Chart (Code Page 1252), beginning on page A-2.
Step 4.Scan Save, or scan Discard to exit without saving.
To Clear One or All Prefixes or...

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Transmit Alternate Extended ASCII Characters
You may need to emulate special keyboard functions, such as up or down arrows, Alt/Make or Alt/Break commands, that are not 
supported in the Extended ASCII Character table.   Refer to the Alternate Extended ASCII Characters table, below, for a range 
of keyboard function keys and corresponding decimal and hex characters.  If you scan the Transmit Alternate Extended ASCII 
code, any hex entries in a prefix or suffix will result in the corresponding...

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Function Code Transmit
When this selection is enabled and function codes are contained within the scanned data, the scanner transmits the function 
code to the terminal.  Charts of these function codes are provided in Symbology Charts starting on page A-1.  When the scan-
ner is in keyboard wedge mode, the scan code is converted to a key code before it is transmitted. Default = Enable.
Communication Check Character
To enhance security, you can specify the transmission type of a check character;...

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Intercharacter, Interfunction, and Intermessage Delays
Some terminals drop information (characters) if data comes through too quickly.  Intercharacter, interfunction, and intermessage 
delays slow the transmission of data, increasing data integrity.
Intercharacter Delay
An intercharacter delay of up to 327675 milliseconds (in 5ms increments) may be placed between the transmission of each 
character of scanned data.  Scan the following Intercharacter Delay bar code, then scan the number of 5ms...

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Interfunction Delay
An interfunction delay of up to 327675 milliseconds (in 5ms increments)  may be placed between the transmission of each 
segment of the message string.  Scan the following Interfunction Delay bar code, then scan the number of 5ms delays, 
and the Save bar code using the Programming Chart inside the back cover of this manual.
To remove this delay, scan the Interfunction Delay bar code, then set the number of delays to 0.  Scan the Save bar code 
using the Programming Chart inside...

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Data Formatting
Data Format Editor Introduction
You may use the Data Format Editor to change the scanner’s output.  For example, you can use the Data Format Editor to insert 
characters at certain points in bar code data as it is scanned.  The selections in the following pages are used only if you wish to 
alter the output.  Default Data Format setting = None.
Normally, when you scan a bar code, it gets outputted automatically; however when you create a format, you must use a “send” 
command (see...

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from the Programming Chart inside the back cover of this manual.  (Note:  50 characters is entered as 0050.  9999 is a 
universal number, indicating all lengths.) 
Step 6. Editor Commands
Refer to  (page 7-3).  Scan the symbols that represent the command you want to enter.
Step 7.Scan Save to save your data format, or Discard to exit without saving your changes.
Other Programming Selections
Clear One Data Format 
This deletes one data format for one symbology.   If you are clearing the primary...

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Data Format Editor Commands
Send Commands
Send all characters
F1 Include in the output message all of the characters from the input message, starting from current cursor position, 
followed by an insert character.  Syntax = F1xx where xx stands for the insert character’s hex value for its ASCII code.  
Refer to the ASCII Conversion Chart (Code Page 1252), page A-2 for decimal, hex and character codes.
Send a number of characters
F2 Include in the output message a number of characters followed by an...

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The data is output as:  
1234567890
ABCDEFGHIJ

Send all characters up to a particular character
F3 Include in the output message all characters from the input message, starting with the character at the current cursor 
position and continuing to, but not including, the search character “ss,” followed by an insert character.  The cursor is 
moved forward to the “ss” character.  Syntax = F3ssxx where ss stands for the search character’s hex value for its ASCII 
code, and xx stands for the insert...