Datamars ISO MAX V User Manual

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ISO MAX V Manual – v. 1.2 – july 2012 227. Save creates or overwrites a file named WINMAX.TXT. This file is an ASCII file and can beopen by Notepad, WinWord, Excel etc.Warning: the information is not saved until you press the Save button.For instance, if you use Excel follow the procedure below, once the data is saved:1. Open Excel.2. In File select “Open”.3. In the Files of Type (Bottom of Excel pop up Open page) select “Text Files”.4. Search and open WINMAX.TXT (WINMAX.TXT is located in the same directory as WinMax).5. Excel will ask some questions regarding the format of the data. It will be possible to delimitatefields such as the code, the date, and the time. For this it is necessary to indicate the format ofeach of them once requested as text or date etc.6. Once you arrive at the end, click finish and everything will appear on the worksheet.It also possible to directly copy the data from the Terminal: select the data, right click on it,choose “copy” from the pop-up menu.Then open a new document (Excel, Word, etc…) and choose “paste” from the Edit menu.8.4 Tip to automatically select the port numberIt is possible to “force” a port selection to avoid the port selection.This is possible by entering a port number in the program command line.When starting the WinMax.exe file, add a number to indicate the port number. Example for theCom5: WinMax.exe 5.How to proceed on the Windows system:Create a shortcut to start WinMax and add a number on the target. Create the shortcut from thedirectory where WinMax is installed (default is "C:\Program Files\Datamars\WinMax\”).The simplest way is to select the WinMax.exe file, click the right key on the mouse and select‘send to desktop’.On the shortcut, click the right key on the mouse and select the properties.On the target after the command line WinMax.exe add the number of the port to open.Ex.: "C:\Program Files\WinMax\WinMax.exe" 2 for com2. Note that the number is outside thequotation marks (2 in this example).The number must be placed outside the quotation marks where quotation marks are present.