{"id":3307,"date":"2019-02-12T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyflexdoc.wpengine.com\/usage-help-manual\/8-smart-instrument-interfaces\/asc\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:23:13","slug":"asc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/usage-help-manual\/16-smart-instrument-interfaces\/asc\/","title":{"rendered":"ASC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>Purpose:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>Manage communication between ASCII controllers and client tasks in CyFlex, interpreting commands, composing messages, sending them, and processing responses.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Enter:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>ASC &lt;<\/strong>priority_level&gt; &lt;name_stem&gt; [auxilary_name] &amp;<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Where:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<div>\n<table style=\"width: 92.1%; height: 72px;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col \/>\n<col \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 31.25%; height: 24px;\">priority_level<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 101.65%; height: 24px;\">Specify the task priority.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 31.25%; height: 24px;\">name_stem<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 101.65%; height: 24px;\">Specify a name string to create the event names and configuration file paths to communicate with the ASC task.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 31.25%; height: 24px;\">auxilary_name<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 101.65%; height: 24px;\">Optional. Specify a name for auxiliary events.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Example:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>ASC<\/strong> 10 dpt &amp;<br \/>\nThe above spawns the ASC task at priority 10 with a name stem of dpt. The &#8216;name_stem&#8217; is used to construct the name of the configuration file that is read to configure the service. For this example, the configuration that will be accessed is \/specs\/dpt.cfg.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Notes:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>The program requires at least two arguments and operates as a background service in CyFlex.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose: Manage communication between ASCII controllers and client tasks in CyFlex, interpreting commands, composing messages, sending them, and processing responses. Enter: ASC &lt;priority_level&gt; &lt;name_stem&gt; [auxilary_name] &amp; Where: priority_level Specify the task priority. name_stem Specify a name string to create the event names and configuration file paths to communicate with the ASC task. auxilary_name Optional. Specify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":1955,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3307\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}