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In order to support a greater number of terminals the software has been expanded
from 99 to 254 Terminal Support.

1.

All references in FM for Terminal Number have expanded to 3 digits  i.e
Product File. Till Parameters, Printer Configuration etc. In this functionality it

is now possible to have 254 machines on the same network with as many

Master Terminals as is required. To realise this a New setting has been put
into S2001.INI as shown below :-

REM ********************TERMINAL NUMBER SETTING*************************

REM THE VARIABLE BELOW REFERS TO THE LOWEST TILL ON THIS SYSTEM. SET IN
REM SYSTEM PARAMETERS THE N__BER OF TILLS EQUAL TO THE EXACT NUMBER OF TILLS
REM BEING USED ON THIS SYSTEM. THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS BETTER CONTROL FOR MORE
REM THAN ONE MASTER ON  A SYSTEM. (i.e TILL_LO=100 AND NUMBER OF TILLS = 2
REM MEANS THAT ONLY TILLS 100 & 101 ARE ACTIVE ON THIS SYSTEM

node=1

TILL_LO=

This setting informs the System the lowest Terminal Number on the

System (normally=1), the other setting that is important is the “No of

Tills” setting in System Parameters. This should be set to the exact
Number of tills on the system.

Then when in operation if TILL_LO=1 and “No of Tills” is 3 The Master on End of
Day will only look at Till 1,2 & 3 if Till Parameters for anymore Terminals are set the

Master will ignore them.

On the Same Network are 10 Machines 4 in one system and 6 in the other

TILL_LO=1
No of Tills=4
Master Number 1
Master will Access Till 1,2,3 & 4

TILL_LO=5
No of Tills=6
Master Number 5
Master will Access Till 5,6,7,8,9 & 10

Till parameters on all machines on both Systems could be set for 10 Terminals