RKS+CAN ASCII Interface

Under Linux, I use the RKS+CAN ASCII interface to communicate with the RKS+CAN hardware and read or send CAN messages. Everything works perfectly well.
"However, I would like to be able to read back from the interface what settings are currently configured. That is, baud rate, list mode, hardware filter, timestamp mode, etc. Are there any commands in the ASCII interface that are not currently documented? In the DLL for Windows, it seems there is at least something available to read the timestamp mode."
I understand that at the beginning of the program, I can set everything I want, and if the answer is correct, it will be saved. However, I would prefer if it were possible to retrieve those settings again at any time.


Best regards,
Bruno.

Hello Bruno,

The commands for the DLL and the ASCII interface are identical.

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I understand that at the beginning of the program, I can set everything I want, and if the answer is correct, it will then be set accordingly.

Okay.

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However, it would be better if one could always read that back again.

Because redundant code would be bad style.
The user of the interface (whatever program it is) already needs to know how each setting should be configured, so there's no point in including such a query option within the interface itself.

It simply doesn't make sense to ask or even check what happened before. The interface does what it's supposed to do (simply put), and that's all there is to it.
It doesn't discuss with the user what happened yesterday or at some other time, but rather it performs whatever it is supposed to do right now.

It would be different if the interface were configured and then ran independently. In that case, it would make sense.
However, this scenario never occurs because the data is not processed within the interface itself, but rather it must be processed by a program that utilizes the interface.

Best regards, Rainer.