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Chapter 4

GPIB 488.2 Library Reference

Programming Reference Manual

4-24

GPIB-488

SendSetup

Addresses a GPIB board as a Talker and the specified GPIB devices as Listeners.

Syntax

C

SendSetup(int board, short addresslist [])

Parameters

board

is an integer which identifies the GPIB board to be used for this operation. In most

applications, this value is 0.

addresslist

is an array of GPIB addresses, terminated by the value

NOADDR

. These

addresses identify the devices to address as Listeners.

Returns

ibsta

will contain a 16-bit status word as described in Appendix B,

IBSTA

.

iberr

will contain an error code, if an error occurred.

Usage Notes

Following this routine, you should call a routine such as

SendDataBytes

to actually transfer

the data.

Example

This example prepares GPIB board 0 to send data to GPIB devices 6 and 7.

C

short addresslist[3] = {6, 7, NOADDR};

SendSetup(0, addresslist);