How can I write "enter" or "carriage return" to a serial object?

I am working on manipulating the Polhemus FasTrak tracking system via MatLab through RS-232 serial connection. So far I have been able to send commands that configure settings (using fprintf), as well as record data (using fscanf). For a certain command to enable and disable stations of the tracking system, the manual calls for a "<>" or Ascii carriage return (enter). I have tried printing < >,<cr>, \n, \r ect. to the tracking system and nothing seems to work.

Here is a link to the manual, the command I am trying to execute is on page 59: http://polhemus.com/_assets/img/FASTRAK_User_Manual_OPM00PI002-G.pdf

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

A carriage return is ASCII code 13. Can you simply send a char(13), or perhaps an int8(13), to the serial connection?