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Serial Port Connectivity

FrontRunner always communicates over Ethernet with the VS-1 Smart Camera; however, the Serial port is fully supported by the Job in the form of allowing Serial triggers and Serial ASCII reporting output via the Acquire, Digital Input and Formatted Output Tools.

The serial string(s) are formatted using the *printf C syntax*. Special characters can be used and are summarized in Table 2-3.

TABLE 2-3. Special Characters 

Sequence

Output Character

\a
Bell (alert)
\b
Backspace
\f
Formfeed
\n
New line
\r
Carriage return
\t
Horizontal tab
\v
Vertical tab
\'
Single quotation mark
\"
Double quotation mark
\\
Backslash
\ooo
ASCII character in octal notation
\xhhh
ASCII character in hexadecimal notation


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