LeCroy Digital Oscilloscopes, Manual

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Transfer to PC of real acquired waveform data is
clearly practical when calculating or storing data
using common spreadsheet or math software.
Here’s how to do this in three ways, using GPIB,
floppy or RS232 communication port.
The scope can directly store to floppy in the ASCII
format traces of up to 50 000 points; larger
waveforms can be stored to removable hard disk
or PC memory card ( see the
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). However, for the larger traces, a
conversion from the LeCroy binary format to
ASCII
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will be needed. How to do this is also
explained here (
page 3–157).
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The scope stores data in LeCroy’s binary format, conversion of
which to ASCII creates an output file requiring 10–20 times the disk
space of the original LeCroy binary file. A one-megabyte record will
typically take up 13–15 MB stored in ASCII. And waveforms stored in
ASCII cannot then be recalled back into the scope.