If You Are Plotting Measurement Results To A Disk Drive - Agilent Technologies 8753ET User Manual

— If you choose
use (printers or plotters).
— If you choose
and cannot be used for printing or plotting.
• Choose
SERIAL
as follows:
a. Press
PLOTTER BAUD RATE
b. To select the transmission control method that is compatible with your plotter, press
XMIT CNTRL
❏ If you choose
exchange by transmitting control characters to the network analyzer.
❏ If you choose
exchange by setting the electrical voltage on one line of the RS-232 serial cable.
NOTE Because the
or software, it is the fastest transmission control method.

If You Are Plotting Measurement Results to a Disk Drive

The plot files that you generate from the analyzer, contain the HPGL representation of the measurement
display. The files will not contain any setup or formfeed commands.
CAUTION
Do not mistake the line switch for the disk eject button when you are removing the disk from
the analyzer. If the line switch is mistakenly pushed, the instrument will be turned off, losing
all settings and data that have not been saved.
1. Configure the analyzer to plot to disk.
a. Press
SET ADDRESSES
Local
b. Press
Save/Recall
• Choose
INTERNAL DISK
• Choose
EXTERNAL DISK
configure the disk drive as follows:
1. Press
CONFIGURE EXT DISK
disk drive (default is 00) followed by
2. Press
Local
followed by
3. If your storage disk is partitioned, press
number where you want to store the instrument state file.
PARALLEL [COPY]
PARALLEL [GPIO]
if your plotter has a serial (RS-232) interface, and then configure the plot function
and enter the plotter's baud rate, followed by
(transmit control - handshaking protocol) until the correct method appears.
, the handshake method allows the plotter to control the data
Xon-Xoff
, the handshake method allows the plotter to control the data
DTR-DSR
handshake takes place in the hardware rather than the firmware
DTR-DSR
PLOTTER PORT
and select the disk drive that you will plot to.
SELECT DISK
if you will plot to the analyzer internal disk drive.
if you will plot to a disk drive that is external to the analyzer. Then
DISK UNIT NUMBER
.
x1
Printing, Plotting, and Saving Measurement Results
, the parallel port is dedicated for normal copy device
, the parallel port is dedicated for general purpose I/O,
DISK
and enter the GPIB address to the
ADDRESS: DISK
.
x1
and enter the drive where your disk is located,
VOLUME NUMBER
Configuring a Plot Function
.
x1
.
and enter the volume
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