Could someone please explain this?

Hi,

I'm writing a program that interfaces with a device on the serial port and
in the documentation it says the folowing:
3.1.1. Header:Code.



The Header:Code combination is configured thus:



Header: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0

< Number of Dims> 1 F/A E/S



Where:



Number of Dims is a value between 0 and 22 identifying the number of dims to
be transmitted (22 is equivalent to 100%)



Bit 2 is always set to '1' to ensure that the interface is able to maintain
synchronization.



F/A defines whether the following byte is a function (1) or address (0).



E/S defines whether the following byte is an extended transmission (1) or a
standard transmission (0).







Could someone please explain what "Number of Dims is a value between 0 and
22 identifying the number of dims to be transmitted (22 is equivalent to
100%)" means?

A link to the documentation:
http://www.marmitek.com/en/software/PROTOCOL.DOC (Bottom of page 2)

Thanks,

Michael


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