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GPIB-120B User Manual
About This Manual
This manual describes how to install, configure, and operate the National
Instruments GPIB-120B.
Conventions
The following conventions appear in this manual:
»
The
»
symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence
File»Page Setup»Options
directs you to
pull down the
File
menu, select the
Page Setup
item, and select
Options
from the last dialog box.
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
bold
Bold text denotes items that you must select or click in the software, such
as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes parameter
names.
GPIB-120B
GPIB-120B refers to a National Instruments GPIB isolator/expander that
expands and isolates the GPIB up to a maximum of 2500 VDC.
IEEE 488 and
IEEE 488
and
IEEE 488.2
refer to the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.1-1987
IEEE 488.2
and the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.2-1992, respectively, which define the
GPIB.
italic
Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross-reference, or an introduction
to a key concept. Italic text also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word
or value that you must supply.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the
keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples.
This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths, directories,
programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions, operations,
variables, filenames, and extensions.
