Serial communication with start and stop commands in Labview

[NJKirchner]

I am trying to talk to a recorder which requires the serial string format [\02AD002;ORC\03]. the \02 and \03 are the hex equivalent for the start text and end text commands. When I type this screen into a VISA session out of MAX everything is happy and works. When I open a visa session in LabVIEW and try to write the exact same string to the port it doesn't send the correct command. Anyone with experience with this?

[Randy_H]

NKirchner,

My only suggestion is to make sure that the string control is in Codes Display when typing in your string. To do this, right-click on the control and choose '\' Codes Display. Now type in your string. For more information on the 4 modes of string control, see page 9-2 in the LabVIEW User's Manual.

Randy Hoskin
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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