Product Name: COMxL RS232C
Version     : 2.20
Status      : Shareware (90 uses-limit)
Author      : G.Ye (Lye SoftLab)
Home Page   : http://www.lye-tech.com
Email       : gyesoft@homepage.com

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Welcome to COMxL RS232C for MS Excel 97/2000
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The purpose of COMxL RS232C program:

COMxL RS232C  is an ease-to-use and very-helpful Add-Ons/Add-Ins for 
MS Excel 97/2000 's user. It lets you link your instrument 
to your any Excel worksheet directly via RS232C port. The readings 
from instrument can go/fill-in anywhere you want to them to go by 
just simply highlighting the range. The moving direction of fill-in 
Data can be selected (top-down or left-to-right)

Date/Time stamping and Upper/Lower Limits warning are available
Support sending ASCII command to instrument
Timer samplling availabe if instrument can recieve ASCII command and
send back DATA to PC through RS232 port 


Key features: 
* Import instrument's DATA via RS232C port to MS Excel worksheet 
* Ease to setup for instrument with RS232C port and use. 
* Date&Time stamping 
* Send ASCII command to instrument to download its DATA 
* Timer sampling for DATA input 
* Pop-up message for  Upper/Lower Limits warning
* Send a set of commands from File "CmmdsListFile.txt" to instrument
* Send Command from clipboard to instrument or other computer
* Send Text in the clipboard to instrument or other computer
* Commands list and Upper/Lower Limits list availabl
* Send a set of commands in a text File to instrument
* Import DATA from a text file
* Smart data-format for finding DATA from input-string with ease
* COMMAND of waiting for few seconds is available
* Support geting multi-DATA seperated by a seperating-character from one input line

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Somethings New in latest version 2.20:
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1) Wait_COMMAND "CMMD_WAIT(2)" for waiting few seconds for instrument respond is available
2) Support geting multi-DATA seperated by a seperating-charater from one input line

Note for appliaction:
* For new feature 1), when you send a set of commands, you can use it to wait 
  for responding from instrumnet

* Using new feature 2), you can get more than one DATA from one input line 
  the seperating-character maybe is Comma("," or Chr44), Table (Chr9) or any ASCII character(Chr###)

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1. System requirements
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OS: Windows95/98/NT4/2000
Excel: Excel97 up
Other: VB6 Runtime Files

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2. Installation procedure (Windows 95/98/NT4/2000)
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A) Install COMxL RS232C program
For New user:
   Unzip comxl22f.zip to a temperory director(C:\cmxltmp)
   Run "Setup.exe" from the directory
For updating user(If VB6 rumtime files already installed):
   Create a directory such as "C:\COMXL" and simply
   unzip comxl220.zip (extract all files) to the directory

B). Add-Ons/Add-Ins "COMxL RS232C" in your Excel
    1) Run MS Excel
    2) From its menu: Tools => Add-ins => Browse. Find and select "COMxL.xla" 
       from the subdirectory of the "COMxL RS232C", click button "OK", then 
       tick it, then click button "OK".
    3) In your Excel's menu, you will find "COMXL" => "COMXL RS232C"

Note: COMxL RS232C need VB6 runtime files (DLL and OCX) to run it. If you PC does not 
      have them, please download the full package(comxl220full.zip) of COMxL RS232C 
      and installn it. 
      comxl22f.zip can be dowload from 
            1) http://www.simtel.net/pub/dl/53008.shtml
            2) http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gyesoft
            3) http://www.lye-tech.com


Other way to install/use Excel's Add-Ons/Add-Ins:
     Before open your Excel file, open "COMxL.xla" first, then you will
     find "COMxL" => "COMxL RS232C" in Excel menu

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3. How to use COMxL RS232C
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a). Open your Excel File and highlight the range you want Data to fill in
b). Run "COMxL RS232C" from Excel's menu: COMxL => COMxL RS232C
c). Connect RS232C port by click button "Connect (F1)" in COMxL's Operation Panel
d). Input Data to your Excel File from instrument or download Data by sending a 
    ASCII command to instrument

Note: Before you connect RS232C port (Step 3), you maybe need set tools' communication 
      parameters at first time or when you want to change the settings, you also can 
      select the moving direction of Data in your Excel sheet.

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4. About Communication parameters
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Parameters include Three parts: 
1)RS232C port's settings
2)In-coming string data format
3)Terminating-Character and seperating-Character

Example: [GYE01]Com2:9600,N,8,1!XOnXoff!(S=+/-,L=9)Tm0=CRLF,Tm1=Chr9

Part-one(necessary):
[GYE01] - GYE01 is instrument/device name
Com2:9600,N,8,1!XonXoff! - RS232C port's settings

Part-two(necessary):
(S=+/-,L=9) - Data start with "+" or "-" and its lenght is 9 charactors

Note: Other format in part two:
.(Range[4 - 12]) means that the Data is charators of from 4 to 12 in the in-coming string
.(all) means the whole in-coming string as the DATA
.(S=01A,L=Auto) 
       "S=01A" means the prefix of Data is "01A"
       "L=Auto" means Data-length will be auto-detected by COMxL
.(Range[4 - Auto]): End of Data (start at 4) will be auto-detected by COMxL

Part-three(Optional):
Tm0=CRLF,Tm1=Chr9
. "Tm0=CRLF" means the input-string terminated by "CRLF"
. "Tm1=Chr9" means the seperating-character is Chr9 (Table Character)
Note: The terminating-character must only be "CR" or "CRLF". 
      The seperating-character may be any ASCII Character
      For example, For CSV format: "Tm1=," or "Tm1=Chr44"


Follow above rule, you can create your own communication parameters based-on your 
instrument user manual


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5. Web site & Support
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Homepage: http://www.lye-tech.com
Author  : G.Ye (Lye SoftLab)
Email   : gyesoft@yahoo.com


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6. Order & Registration 
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Online Registration available
Registration fee US $: 59 

Please visite our WebSite: http://www.lye-tech.com  for detail and latest information 

