J2 485 System ManualVersion 1.0 May 19, 201250J2 Virtual Serial Ports DriversVirtual serial ports can be used for the cash drawers, virtual 2x20 line display on theoptional 10.1 LCD, Smart UPS, MSR and iButton.To open the virtual serial cash drawer, send a bell character to the Com port it is assignedto. (The bell character is the ASCII 07 hex character “Control G.”) The open/closestatus of the drawer may be obtained by reading the status bits of its COM port. Thedrawer open/close status will be reflected on the CTS and RI bits, either bit may be used.This virtual COM port driver is designed to work the same as a hardware serial cashdrawer and will work with drivers for serial cash drawers.
