Re: instrument-control

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:35 AM, kees <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have trouble writing to the serial port with the "srl_write(port, data)"
> function.
> The data that the the write function accepts or transmit is in ascii format
> however the instrument that I would like to communicate with accept only
> byte values from 0-to-255.
>
> For instance to put the analyzer in remote control I have to send a byte
> with the value of 69. If I send the character "E" it will go in the remote
> mode. However if I send the value 69 the two byte values 54 and 57. Or when
> I communicate in "cute-com" I can send the hexadecimal value of 0x45 and
> that works too.
>
> So my question is how do I use the srl_write function to send byte values to
> the analyzer?
>
> Kees Blom
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If I understood correctly you already know the answer.
If you want to send the byte "69" you can use the command

srl_write(port, char(69))

You could write a small wrapper function srl_writebyte if the char
thingy bothers you too much.

Hope this helps

Cheers