National Instruments GPIB-MAC User Manual page 61

November 1985
onl: Initialization function
Syntax: on1 [bool] <CR>
Purpose: You use
GPIB-MAC and the GPIB, or to reinitialize the GPIB-
MAC characteristics to their default values.
Remarks: If the argument
online. If the argument
places itself offline. By default, the GPIB-MAC powers
up online, is in the Idle Controller state, and configures
itself to be the System Controller.
If you call
returns the current status of the GPIB-MAC, which is 0
if the GPIB-MAC is offline and 1 if the GPIB-MAC is
online.
Placing the GPIB-MAC offline may be thought of as
disconnecting its GPlB cable from the other GPIB
devices.
Placing the GPIB-MAC online allows the GPIB-MAC to
communicate over the GPIB, and also restores all GPIB-
MAC settings to their power-on values.
Refer to the Serial Port Characteristics table and the
GPIB Characteristics table in Section Three for the
GPIB-MAC power-on settings.
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to disable communications between the
is 1, the GPIB-MAC places itself
without an argument, the GPIB-MAC
is 0, the GPIB-MAC