About This Manual
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National Instruments Corporation
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PCI-Based MXI-2 Interface for Windows
When you have successfully set up your system, you can begin to develop
applications in NI-VISA and/or NI-VXI. Refer to the
NI-VISA User
Manual
to learn about VISA and how to use it in your system. The
NI-VISA help describes the attributes, events, and operations you can use
in NI-VISA. The user manual is available in the
c:\VXIpnp\
os
\
NIvisa\manuals
directory (where
os
corresponds to the version of
Windows you are using) under the name
NIVISAUM.pdf
. Use Acrobat
Reader 3.0 or later to open this file.
The NI-VXI help presents the concepts of VXI and detailed explanations
of the NI-VXI functions. Study the descriptions of each function in the help
to fully understand the purpose and syntax of each function. You also can
access the NI-VXI help in the
NIVXI
folder.
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.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
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 and
LED names.
italic
Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, an introduction to
a key concept, or text as it appears on a hardware label. 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.
