Configure Your Software with IBCONF
Chapter 5
GPIB-232CT-A for MS-DOS/Windows 5-2
© National Instruments Corp.
For DOS, the simplest way to use
IBCONF.EXE
is to change to the
directory that contains the installed GPIB distribution files and enter the
following command:
IBCONF
IBCONF.EXE
finds a
GPIB.COM
file to configure by going through the
following process:
1.
If the file
C:\CONFIG.SYS
exists and contains a line of the format
device=<path>gpib.com
, that
GPIB.COM
file is configured.
2.
If the file
CONFIG.SYS
exists on the root directory of the current
drive and contains a line of the format
device=<path>gpib.com
,
that
GPIB.COM
file is configured.
3.
If a
GPIB.COM
file exists in the current directory, that file is
configured.
In Windows, changes made using
WIBCONF.EXE
are recorded in the
GPIB.INI
file. The changes are effective immediately.
For Windows, you can run
WIBCONF.EXE
either from DOS or Windows.
WIBCONF.EXE
finds the
GPIB.INI
file that contains the configuration
information by going through the following process:
1. Check
C:\WINDOWS
for a
GPIB.INI
file.
2.
Check
\WINDOWS
for a
GPIB.INI
file.
3. Check the current directory for a
GPIB.INI
file.
Table 5-1.
IBCONF
Options
IBCONF Option
Action
driver
IBCONF
configures the given driver file
instead of following one of the search rules
listed above.
-m
Monochrome mode.
This option causes
IBCONF
to run in
monochrome mode even though you have a
color monitor.