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IBIC

Section Five

GPIB-PC User Manual

5-2

©National Instruments Corp.

Running

IBIC

The

IBIC

program,

IBIC.EXE

, is an executable file that was copied

from the distribution diskette to a subdirectory called

GPIB-PC

when

you ran

IBSTART

at installation.

To run

IBIC

, change directory to

C:\GPIB-PC

and enter:

C:\GPIB-PC>

ibic

National Instruments
Interface Bus Interactive Control

Program (IBIC)

Copyright (c) 1984 National Instru

ments, Inc.

All Rights Reserved

Type "help" for help.

Use IBFIND to initially open a boa

rd or device.

Use SET to select an already opene

d board or device.

Messages will appear on the screen that give you information about the

HELP

,

IBFIND

, and

SET

commands.

The first input prompt to

IBIC

is a colon (

:

).

NOTE: In using

IBIC

, the four most important functions are the

HELP

,

IBFIND

,

IBWRT

, and

IBRD

commands.