Drivers And Software; Files And Directories Installed On Your Hard Drive - National Instruments NI PXI-8186 User Manual

Drivers and Software

Files and Directories Installed on Your Hard Drive

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Your hard drive includes a directory called
contains software and soft copies of manuals for the peripherals. The
directory structure under the
several levels.
In the directory, you will find a
images
an directory, and directories for each computer peripheral.
os
The directory contains quick reference guides, technical
manuals
reference manuals, and National Instruments software manuals, all in
Adobe Acrobat format. To access any manual, change your directory to
c:\images\pxi-8180\manuals
You will see several files, one corresponding to each peripheral.
The directory contains a subdirectory corresponding to the operating
os
system installed on your computer.
The rest of the directories correspond to each peripheral in your system.
Within each of these directories are the drivers for the peripherals. These
files and directories are copied exactly from the manufacturer distribution
disks, so the naming conventions vary from peripheral to peripheral.
Because the naming conventions may not be completely straightforward,
National Instruments provides a text file named
c:\images\pxi-8180
to install support for each peripheral. You may want to print this file for
reference when you install your peripheral device drivers.
Chapter 2
directory is logically organized into
images
manuals
and list the contents of that directory.
directory. The
drivers.txt
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Installation and Configuration
in its root that
images
directory,
in the
drivers.txt
file explains how
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