Intermec 700 - Manual (Page 237)

6 Scanner Support — Chapter
213 700 Series Color Mobile Computer User’s Manual
Tethered Scanners
The Intermec Tethered Scanner feature allows Automatic Data Collection
(ADC) by accepting data from the COM1 port and wedging it into the
keyboard interface. You can enable or disable this feature from the Today
screen on the 700 Color Computer.
The following information is divided between units with PSM Builds old-
er than 3.00 (next paragraph) or units with PSM Builds 3.00 or newer
(starting on page 218).
For Units With PSM Builds Older than 3.00
Enabling and Disabling
On the 700 Color Computer, tap Start > Today. Tap the bar code scan-
ner icon in the System Tray (circled below). Initially, the bar code scanner
icon indicates that this feature is disabled (shown to the left).
S Select Comm Port Wedge to send any data, coming into the 700 Color
Computer through the COM1 port from an external input device, as
keyboard data to an application on the desktop.
For example, if you have Pocket Word running on your 700 Color
Computer desktop, information scanned with a scanner connected to
the COM1 port appears in the Word document. If another data collec-
tion application is running and is active on the 700 Color Computer,
the scanned information appears in that application.
Note: When Comm Port Wedge is selected, regardless of the data sent
by the external input device, you cannot control the device or the data
format using any of the Intermec scanner control or data transfer APIs
from the Data Collection Resource Kit from the IDL or the internal
Data Collection software. The external input device is governed by what
software it has onboard to tell it how to scan, take pictures, or send the
data elsewhere.