format — is an efficiency enhancement for Linux.
(format flag)
flag
One of the following flags:
1 turns on the behavior.
0 turns off the behavior.
A message indicating success or error. Please refer to Return Syntax for details.
This command is an efficiency enhancement for Linux, for SRR Module connections only. It tells a DataHub instance that this client would like to get point exceptions in binary instead of ASCII encoding. It is more CPU efficient but does not work well in a heterogeneous network.