GER 1500 USER MANUAL

APPENDICES 37CUSTOM FOREOPTIC NAME CONFIGURATION FILEAn optional configuration file may be used to customize the number, and the names, of the foreoptics supplied with aGER1500. The file name is “foreoptics.cal”. In order to take effect, a file with that name must appear in the installedsoftware’s “System” folder. If this file is not installed, the software uses the standard 5 fore-optic list.The file is an ASCII text file, with the following format:• The first line contains a single number in the range 1-12; this number represents the total number of foreoptic tobe found on subsequent lines.• The remaining lines in the file contain a list of custom foreoptic names, one per line. The first name correspondsto Optic #1, the second name to Optic #2, etc. Each name may be up to 16 characters in length.EXAMPLE (defines a unit with 7 foreoptics):7StandardFiber Optic8 DegreeDiffuserUnity FunctionStandard UW4 Degree UWGER1500pda Configuration FileThe GER1500pda software requires an initialization file (in addition to the normal GER.INI file described above). Thefile name is gerpda.txt, and it must be found in the PDA folder “\My Document\GERsystem” (along with all of theother System files that are normally supplied with the instrument).The gerpda.txt file contains information specific to the PDA installation. An example gerpda.ini file is shown below.Comments in the file are denoted by a starting “pound sign” (#) character.The only parameters currently in use in this file are used to setup the PDA’s internal GPS (if installed).# FILE: gerpda.txt# PDA parameters are case-sensitive, and# MUST conform EXACTLY to the formats:# "Com port GPS = x"# "Baud GPS = yyyy"## NOTE that using an illegal COM port# number of 0 (zero) will disable the PDA's# (internal) GPS, and force the software to# use the GER1500's (external) GPS instead.## The Holux GM-271 internal GPS normally# installs itself on a MicrOFlex 2240X# as:# COM port GPS = 2#Com port GPS = 2Baud GPS = 4800GER 1500 USER MANUAL, REVISION 3.7