Amadeus Peripheral Manager (1A-PM) is a CUTE-like peripheral manager for native
(i.e. Non-CUTE) platforms at airports. 1A-PM is implemented on Windows workstations 
as a lightweight TCP/IP service which runs in background.

Features:
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1A-PM provides the following main functionalities:
1) It exposes serial and parallel devices to IP networks and applications.
2) It allows sharing any type of device between multiple applications (possibly 
   on different workstations).


Devices:
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We currently support the following devices:
1) Ticket/boarding pass printers (ATB/TKP/BCP)
2) Bag tag printers (BTP)
3) Generic printers (PRT)
4) Boarding gate readers (DGR)
5) Magnetic card readers (MSR)
6) Barcode scanners (LSR)
7) Optical character/passport readers (OCR)
8) Epson printers ESC/POS (EPS)
9) IBM printers ESC/POS emulation (IBM)
10) Datamax printers DPL (DTM)


Instructions:
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1) Install
1A-PM comes with an easy-to-use Windows-style installer.

2) Configure
Once you have installed 1A-PM you must configure it with your devices settings
and other options. Use the menu below to edit 1A-PM's configuration file:
    
    Start/Programs/Amadeus Peripheral Manager/Configuration/Edit pm_conf.xml file

3) Run
You can then start, stop or restart 1A-PM at any time using the menus below:

    a) Start/Programs/Amadeus Peripheral Manager/Start
    b) Start/Programs/Amadeus Peripheral Manager/Stop
    c) Start/Programs/Amadeus Peripheral Manager/Restart

4) Get help
For more information please refer to 1A-PM User Guide which is accessible
from the menu below:

     Start/Programs/Amadeus Peripheral Manager/Documentation/User Guide

