Operations Manual

OPERATIONS 4-14
O&M of the MCC-545B PACKET DATA RADIO
12/2000
where: id - numerical Station ID
sss - message serial number
The maintenance terminal prints the date and time, followed by MESSAGE DELETED. Other
commands that you can enter to delete messages are described in Section 4.3.6. See Appendix A
for a description of the printouts.
4.3.2 Sending Commands to Remote Stations
Commands may be sent to any Remote Station, in the form of text messages. The commands
may be any valid command for that type of Remote, except for message entry. The response text
for the command is transmitted back to the 545B in the form of command response packets, and
it is displayed on both the console and alternate console ports. The command entry is similar to
the MESSAGE command, which is shown in the Section 4.3.1.
To send a command to a Remote, enter the following:
REMCMD,p,dest1,...destn
where: p - the priority character A to Z
dest1...destn Remote numeric ID
The operator is prompted for the text of the single command to be entered using the message
editor. Once the command is entered, press the [ESC] key to send the command. The operator
terminal prints:
Hh:mm:ss Message No: name:sss, nnnn chars, nnn segments
Master ID number of 14-character segments
Message Number number of characters
(0 – 255)
The message is enqueued as a type CMD (as displayed by the SMS command). The response is a
type MON message.
4.3.3 Editing Messages
There are several keys on the maintenance terminal that provide editing functions while the
computer is in the edit mode. If you have left the edit mode by pressing the [ESC] key, you can
further edit the message by typing MESSAGE, then [CTRL]T. The contents of the message you
have just entered is displayed. You can then edit the message using the following keys: