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GPIB-232CT-A for MS-DOS/Windows
Chapter 5
Configure Your Software with IBCONF
This chapter contains a description of the programs
IBCONF.EXE
, a utility
you can use to configure your NI-488.2 driver for MS-DOS, and
WIBCONF.EXE
, a utility you can use to configure your NI-488.2 driver for
Windows DLL.
In this chapter, the term IBCONF is used to refer to both
IBCONF.EXE
and
WIBCONF.EXE
. When you complete your software configuration using
IBCONF
, you are ready to begin developing your application program. If
you need more information on
IBCONF
, refer to the online help screens in
the configuration utility.
Note:
Throughout this chapter and
IBCONF
, the terms interface board ,
access board, and board are used to refer the GPIB-232CT-A.
Overview of IBCONF
IBCONF
is a screen-oriented, interactive program that is used to modify the
configuration parameters for your GPIB-232CT-A and the GPIB devices
connected to it.
When used interactively,
IBCONF
reads in the GPIB configuration
parameters and displays them for your inspection. You can alter any of the
parameters to suit your requirements. When you have finished modifying
the configurable parameters, these changes can be saved when you exit the
IBCONF
program.
In DOS, changes to the device driver using
IBCONF.EXE
take effect in the
memory-resident device driver in two ways:
•
The traditional method is to restart your computer so that DOS can
reload the modified device driver into memory.
•
A second, easier method, is to let
IBCONF.EXE
modify the
memory-resident device driver when you exit
IBCONF.EXE
. This
second method works only if the two copies of the device driver (the
one stored on disk and the one loaded into memory by DOS) are
compatible.
