PACSystemsâ„¢ RX3i and RSTi-EP CPU Reference Manual Section 6
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6.3.1.5.3 Information Fields
All message fields, other than the Station Address field, Function Code field, and Error
Check field are called, generically, information fields. Information fields contain additional
information required to specify or respond to a requested function. Different types of
messages have different types or numbers of information fields. (Details on information
fields for each message type and function code are found in RTU Message Descriptions.
Some messages (Message 07 Query and Message 17 Query) do not have information
fields.
6.3.1.6 Examples
As shown in the following figure, the information fields for message READ OUTPUT TABLE
(01) Query consist of the Starting Point No. field and Number of Points field. The
information fields for message READ OUTPUT TABLE (01) Response consist of the Byte
Count field and Data field.
Figure 21: RTU Read Output Table Example