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4/20/2023 Bug fix and a couple of new commands

A project log for HP545xx Data Acquisition Software

A software tool to use an HP545xx Digital Scope for Data Acquisition

bharbourBharbour 04/20/2023 at 20:400 Comments

This zip file contains the source code to build my HP54542_ctl utility under Linux/Unix and the open source parts to build under Windows. The Windows environment needs a couple of National Instruments files that come with the NI488-2 driver package, and one Microsoft file CHKSTK.OBJ. See the previous log file for discussion on how to build.

While working on a library for another instrument (HP5334A freq counter), I realized that the error detection that I had after each GPIB transaction was not working correctly. After some cursing and thrashing  (and testing), I believe it is correct now. I updated the code in this zip file.

2 new commands, one to set the clock in the scope to match the one in the PC, and another to put a short text string on the screen of the scope which is useful for annotating scope shots.

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