Description: PAD Banner Message. Specifies the message PAD ports send to attached terminals when they enter Command Mode. These special characters can be used to display certain information in the PAD Banner Message. A Node address C Channel Number G Group sub-address N Node Name P Port Number S Sub-address T Time V Software revision If the character following the % symbol is not one of the above, both the % and following character are discarded. The caret (^) is used as an escape character to tell the PAD to send control characters. The character following the caret is converted to a control character and is sent to the PAD port for output. The caret is discarded unless it is entered twice (^^).