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Chapter 1 Before You Start ...
Getting Started
1-6 Programming Guide
Getting Started
Before attempting to program the Counter, take some time to familiarize yourself
with the content of this guide. The remainder of this chapter contains the following
information:
• An explanation of how you should use the programming guide based on
your experience programming instruments and your testing requirements.
• A description of the guide contents.
• A statement of assumptions that are made in the guide.
• A list of related documentation.
How to Use This Guide
How you use this guide depends upon how much you already know about
programming instruments and how complex your measurement requirements are.
Let’s start by establishing your programming background, and then discuss the
type of measurements you want to perform.
New Users
What You Should Understand
As a new user, you should understand that you must have some understanding of a
high-level language such as Pascal, BASIC, C,
or FORTRAN before you can use the command set defined in this guide to control
the Counter. (In Chapter 3, “Programming Your Universal Counter for Remote
Operation,” there are programming examples provided in HP BASIC, Microsoft
QuickBASIC, and Borland Turbo C.) However, whatever language you use,
command strings that control the Counter remain the same.