VT510 Video Terminal Programmer Information

DECLBAN—Load Banner Message

DECLBAN loads the banner message to be displayed on the terminal screen at power up.

Format

DCS
9/0
Ps
3/s
r
7/2
D . . . D
...
ST
9/12

Parameters

Ps
denotes the encoding of the message.

Ps Description
0 Zero or omitted, default to Ps=2.
1 Interprets as ASCII hexadecimal pairs. See DECLANS.
2 Loads as text in the VT default character set.

D ... D
is a 30-character string. If a matching Ps value is selected as an encoding method, then you can select to define the string by the characters in the default character set or by hexadecimal pairs.

Description

This command only loads the banner message into dynamic memory. It is necessary to do a Save settings in the Set-Up menu to store the banner message in NVM so that it will be displayed at power up.

The terminal displays the banner message in double size characters above the Selftest OK message.