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Serial Settings:Flow Control

Short name: Flow Cntrl

Member of the Serial Instr class.

This property specifies the flow control method used for both transmitting and receiving data. Valid values are: (0) Flow None, (1) Flow XON/XOFF, (2) Flow RTS/CTS, (3) Flow XON/XOFF and RTS/CTS, (4) Flow DTR/DSR, (5) Flow XON/XOFF and DTR/DSR. Certain values or combinations of values may not be supported by all serial ports and/or operating systems.

Valid values include the following:

0 None
1 XON/XOFF
2 RTS/CTS
3 XON/XOFF &RTS/CTS
4 DTR/DSR
5 XON/XOFF &DTR/DSR

Remarks

The following table lists the characteristics of this property.

Data Type
Access, sessions use Read/Write

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