From 9547eeb7afe7ff87f5fc3c8c159b9d526ea0fc95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pete Bachant <petebachant@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:43:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add acsc.command function

---
 acspy/acsc.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/acspy/acsc.py b/acspy/acsc.py
index 0347833..294cc67 100644
--- a/acspy/acsc.py
+++ b/acspy/acsc.py
@@ -795,6 +795,14 @@ def setOutput(hcomm, port: int, bit: int, val: int, wait=SYNCHRONOUS):
     call_acsc(acs.acsc_SetOutput, hcomm, port, bit, val, wait)
 
 
+def command(hcomm, command: str, wait=SYNCHRONOUS):
+    """Send a command to the ACS controller."""
+    cmd_with_return = (command + "\r").encode()
+    cmd_len = len(cmd_with_return)
+    cmd_buffer = ctypes.create_string_buffer(cmd_with_return)
+    return call_acsc(acs.acsc_Command, hcomm, cmd_buffer, cmd_len, wait)
+
+
 def call_acsc(func, *args, **kwargs):
     """Wraps ACS library to handle errors."""
     rv = func(*args, **kwargs)

From 27033b46eb5ce4f23ade90e0538043d014bb4bf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pete Bachant <petebachant@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:44:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Increment patch version no

---
 acspy/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/acspy/__init__.py b/acspy/__init__.py
index 3a62121..a566fa1 100644
--- a/acspy/__init__.py
+++ b/acspy/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """A package for working with ACS motion controllers in Python."""
 
-__version__ = "0.0.7"
+__version__ = "0.0.8"