National Instruments NI-488.2 Benutzerhandbuch

The following conventions appear in this manual:

The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options 
to a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options directs you to 
pull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item, and select Options 
from the last dialog box.

This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.

Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on in the software, 
such as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes 
parameter names.

IEEE 488 and

IEEE 488 and IEEE 488.2 refer to the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.1-1987

IEEE 488.2

and the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.2-1992, respectively, which define 
the GPIB.

Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction 
to a key concept. This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word 
or value that you must supply.

monospace

Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the 
keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples. 
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 code excerpts.

Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computer 
automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes lines of code 
that are different from the other examples.

The following documents contain information that you may find helpful as 
you read this manual:

•

ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.1-1987, IEEE Standard Digital Interface 
for Programmable Instrumentation

•

ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.2-1992, IEEE Standard Codes, Formats, 
Protocols, and Common Commands