70. A system for reconfiguring a data collection terminal having an encoded information reader device and a radio transceiver, said system comprising: (a) a host computer having a display and a pointer controller for controlling movement of a graphical user interface pointer on said display; (b) an extensible markup language configuration file accessible by said host computer for reconfiguring said radio transceiver, said configuration file having a radio transceiver element including name content designating said radio transceiver and a plurality of parameter elements of lower hierarchy than said radio transceiver element, each said parameter elements including parameter value content designating parameter values controlling operation of said radio transceiver, said configuration file further containing descriptive content for each of several of said parameter elements, the descriptive content including text describing the affect of changing a parameter; (c) wherein said host computer is configured to parse said configuration file and to display on said display said parameter values and said descriptive content, the host computer being configured to enable a user of said system to change a displayed parameter value displayed on said first graphical user interface window and to build an edited configuration file including a parameter value that has been changed by a user.
71. The system of claim 70 , wherein said host computer is configured to be commanded to encode in a transportable medium a decodable dataform that encodes said edited configuration file.