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About This Manual
This manual contains information you need to use the GPIB-VXI/C in your
VXIbus system. It describes the function and behavior of GPIB-VXI/C
units configured with the standard user firmware option.
Conventions
The following conventions appear in this manual:
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
italic
Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, an introduction to
a key concept, or Word Serial commands and queries. This font 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, and code excerpts.
monospace italic
Italic text in this font denotes text that is a placeholder for a word or value
that you must supply.
monospace bold
Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computer
automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes lines of code
that are different from the other examples.
<
hex value
>
Angle brackets enclosing a term in monospace denote a
parameter.
Numbers in this manual are base 10 unless noted as follows:
•
Binary numbers are indicated by a -b suffix (for example, 11010101b).
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Octal numbers are indicated by an -o suffix (for example, 325o).
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Hexadecimal numbers are indicated by an -h suffix (for example,
D5h).
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ASCII character and string values are indicated by double quotation
marks (for example, “This is a string”).
