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Loading a .DAT file into the BHT

Zebra mobile printers will only print files with the .DAT

extension sent from the BHT.  The following example file

CIS.DAT contains a label file that can be loaded from a

PC into the BHT via a serial cable using the TU3.EXE

utility provided by DENSO. The file can then be sent to a

Zebra mobile printer to produce a label.  Files with a .DAT

extension contain records composed of one or more

record fields. For CIS.DAT, each record will be specified

as having only one field with a width of 40 bytes. The 40

byte width was chosen because no single line in the

example CIS.DAT file exceeds 40 bytes. The resulting

records transferred to the BHT will each contain a single

field 40 bytes wide. The BHT and BHT-IR protocol will

add space characters as needed to any field containing

less than 40 bytes. Thus the CIS.DAT file contains 24

lines that will be interpreted as 24 records containing a

single field of 40 bytes.

Note that while the example uses the TU3.EXE utility to

download the file from a PC, these files could also be

created under control of an application program execut-

ing directly on the BHT.

The command line that will transfer this file into the BHT

is: 

TU3 +MPC +B9600 CIS.DAT +F40

The BHT will now contain the file CIS.DAT.