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NI-CAN Configuration Utility

Overview

Starting the NI-CAN Configuration Utility in
Windows 98/95
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This chapter describes the NI-CAN Configuration utility you can use to
configure the objects of the NI-CAN software.
The Windows 98/95 NI-CAN Configuration utility is integrated into the
Windows Device Manager. The Windows NT NI-CAN Configuration
utility is integrated into the Windows NT Control Panel. You can use
the NI-CAN Configuration utility to view or modify the configuration of
NI-CAN objects. For each CAN interface in your system, you can use the
NI-CAN Configuration utility to configure each CAN port as a CAN
Network Interface Object. For example, you can configure the two ports of
an AT-CAN/2 as
CAN0
attributes such as baud rate. For each CAN Network Interface Object, you
can use the NI-CAN Configuration utility to create and modify CAN
Objects. The online help includes all of the information that you need to
properly configure the objects of the NI-CAN software.
The NI-CAN Configuration utility provides an easy mechanism for
configuring the objects used by your application. By configuring objects
with the NI-CAN Configuration utility, your application can open the
objects and begin using them. If you do not want your application to rely
on the NI-CAN Configuration utility, it must call the
for every object you use. The
an object's configuration attributes. The configuration attributes you
specify using
ncConfig
specified using the NI-CAN Configuration utility. For more information on
, refer to the NI-CAN Programmer Reference Manual.
ncConfig
To start the NI-CAN Configuration utility on Windows 98/95, follow these
steps.
and , and you can initialize configuration
CAN1
function specifies values for all of
ncConfig
override any configuration attributes you have
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function
ncConfig
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