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Chapter 7 Interactive Control Utility
NI-488.2 User Manual 7-2 ni.com
To start the Interactive Control utility, complete the following steps:
Windows
1. Select Start»Programs»National Instruments»Measurement &
Automation to start Measurement & Automation Explorer.
2. Expand the Devices and Interfaces directory by clicking the + next to
the folder.
3. Right-click on your GPIB interface and select Interactive Control
from the drop-down menu that appears.
Mac OS X
Double-click on Applications»National Instruments»NI-488.2»
Interactive Control.
Linux
Enter the following command:
<InstallDir>
/natinst/ni4882/bin/gpibintctrl
where
<InstallDir>
is the directory where you chose to install the
NI-488.2 software. The default is
/usr/local.
To use the Interactive Control utility to test a sequence of NI-488.2 calls,
complete the following steps:
1. Open either an interface handle or device handle to use for further
NI-488.2 calls. Use
ibdev to open a device handle, ibfind to
open an interface handle, or the
set 488.2 command to switch
to a 488.2 prompt.
The following example uses
ibdev to open a device, assigns it to
access interface
gpib0, chooses a primary address of 6 with no
secondary address, sets a timeout of 10 seconds (T10s = 13), enables
the END message, and disables the EOS mode:
:ibdev
enter board index: 0
enter primary address:
6
enter secondary address:
0
enter timeout:
13
enter ‘EOI on last byte’ flag:
1
enter end-of-string mode/byte:
0
ud0: