Starting Ibic; Exiting Ibic; Ibic Syntax - National Instruments NI-488.2M Software Reference Manual

ibic—Interface Bus Interactive Control Utility

Starting ibic

The ibic program is contained in ibic.exe, the executable file that was
copied from your distribution disk when you installed the NI-488.2M software.
To run ibic, change to the appropriate subdirectory (AT-GPIB in the following
example) and enter ibic at the prompt as shown:
C:/AT-GPIB>
National Instruments
IEEE-488 Interface Bus Interactive Control Program (IBIC)
Copyright (c) 1993 National Instruments Corp. Version 2.0
Version Date: Apr 30 1993
All Rights Reserved
Press 'help' for help or 'q' to quit.

Exiting ibic

Typing e or q terminates execution of the ibic program.

ibic Syntax

The syntax of functions in ibic differs from the syntax in a programming
language. The main difference is that in ibic, certain messages (ibwrt,
ibwrta, ibrd, ibrda, ibcmd, ibcmda, Send, SendList, and
SendCmds) are entered as strings from the keyboard.
Another difference is that the board or device descriptor (ud) is not explicitly
part of ibic function syntax. Before using any device or board, first call
ibfind to open that unit. ibic uses the descriptor returned by the driver for
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