Accusetter Manual - BC MacDonald & Co.

(RS-232 Personal Computer, continued)
If the Accu-Setter is executing the MPF FXT program, then the response packet will just
contain the displayed fixture. The response packet will contain five fields for each feature
being measured. Each field will be separated by a semicolon (;) delimiter. If their is no
data for a particular field, the delimiter will still be included in the response packet. The
following five fields are allocated for each measured feature.
Field 1 — Check Name, 8 ASCII Characters
Field 2 — Check Value, 5 - 8 ASCII Characters (+0.12345)
Field 3 — Scale, 2 ASCII Characters (in. or mm)
Field 4 — Check Status, 0 - 7 ASCII Characters (over, +apprch, good, -apprch, under)
Field 5 — Check Class, 0 - 8 ASCII Characters (class xx)
The response packet can vary in length depending on the number of features programmed
in the Accu-Setter. the end of each response packet will contain the following five bytes:
Example:
1 2 3 4 5