Configure Your Software with IBCONF
Chapter 5
GPIB-232CT-A for MS-DOS/Windows 5-4
© National Instruments Corp.
The following options are available at the upper level.
•
Device Maps of the Boards
•
Help
•
Rename
•
(Dis)connect
•
Edit
•
Output GPIB Driver Configuration (
IBCONF.EXE
only)
•
Autoconfigure (
IBCONF.EXE
only)
•
Exit
Device Maps of the Boards
Use <PageUp> or <PageDown> to toggle between the device maps for the
different GPIB boards. Each board is referred to as an access board by
IBCONF
. The maps show which devices are assigned to each box. The
default settings attach 16 devices to
GPIB0
and 16 devices to
GPIB1
.
Help
Use <F1> to access the comprehensive, online help feature of
IBCONF
.
The help information describes the functions and common terms associated
with the upper-level of
IBCONF
.
Rename
Use <F4> to rename a device. Move to the device you want to rename by
using the cursor control keys. Press <F4> and enter the new name of the
device. The device name may contain up to eight characters and uses the
same rules as MS-DOS for naming files, except that suffixes (
.xxx
) are not
allowed.
