National Instruments GPIB-PC - Manual (Page 198)

IBIC Section Five
GPIB-PC User Manual 5-10 ©National Instruments Corp.
characters into the string as shown in the following string:
F3R5T1\r\n . Since the carriage return can be represented
equally well in hex, xD and r are equivalent strings.
5. bdname is the symbolic name of the new device or board; for
example, ibfind dev1 or set gpib0 .
6. v is the number of bytes to read.
7. flname is the DOS pathname of the file to be read or written,
e.g., \test\meter or printr.buf.
8. mask is a hex, octal, or decimal integer (see note 3) or a mask
bit mnemonic.
Status Word
All IBIC functions return the status word IBSTA in two forms — a hex
value in square brackets, and a list of mnemonics in parentheses.
Example:
dev1:
[900](rqs cmpl)
COUNT: 5
dev1:
ibwrt "f2t3x"
In this example, the status word shows that the device level write
operation completed successfully and that
dev1 is requesting service.
Table 5.2 lists the mnemonics of the status word. This is the same list
that is given in Table 4.1.