National Instruments PXI-GPIB Getting Started

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©National Instruments CorporationixPXI-GPIB/PMC-GPIB for Windows NTAbout This ManualConventions Used in This ManualThe following conventions are used in this manual:» The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box optionsto a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options»SubstituteFonts directs you to pull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item,select Options, and finally select the Substitute Fonts options from thelast dialog box.This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a warning, which advisesyou of precautions to take to avoid being electrically shocked.bold Bold text denotes the names of menus, menu items, parameters, dialogboxes, dialog box buttons or options, icons, windows, Windows 95 tabs,or LEDs.bold italic Bold italic text denotes an activity objective, note, caution, or warning.IEEE 488 and IEEE 488 and IEEE 488.2 refer to the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.1-1987IEEE 488.2 and the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.2-1992, respectively, which define theGPIB.italic Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introductionto a key concept. This font also denotes text from which you supply theappropriate word or value, as in Windows 3.x.monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enterfrom the keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntaxexamples. This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths,directories, programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions,operations, variables, filenames and extensions, and for statements andcomments taken from programs.monospace bold Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computerautomatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes lines of codethat are different from the other examples.