Ibic sample programs, Device function calls – National Instruments GPIB-PC User Manual

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Section Five

IBIC

©National Instruments Corp.

5-19

GPIB-PC User Manual

IBIC

Sample Programs

Refer to Section Four A, BASICA/QuickBASIC GPIB Programming
Examples
, for a description of the programming steps that could be used
to program a representative IEEE-488 instrument from your personal
computer using the GPIB-PC handler functions. The applications are
written using

IBIC

commands.

Device Function Calls

To communicate with a device, first "find" the device name which was
given to the device in the

IBCONF

program.

Example:

DVM:

:ibfind dvm

Clear the device. The user should check for ERR after each GPIB
function call to be safe.

Example:

DVM:

[0100] (cmpl)

ibclr

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