Agilent Technologies E1301B Download Program Configuration, Editing the Configuration File

Download Program Configuration

Editing the Configuration File

If you will not be using the default configurations for downloading, you will need to edit the configuration file to match your system configuration. If the default values shown below are correct for your setup, you can proceed to the appropriate downloading instructions.

The configuration defaults for MS-DOS systems are:

•Download program searches for drivers in current directory.

•Execution Log is OFF (log to screen only).

•All drivers in current directory will be downloaded.

•COM1 is used for output.

•Baud rate is 9600.

•1 stop bit is used

•NRAM size is zero.

•RDISK size is zero.

The configuration defaults for GPIB systems are:

•Download program searches for drivers in current directory.

•Execution Log is OFF (log to screen only).

•All drivers in current directory will be downloaded.

•80900 is used for the interface address when running from IBASIC. 70900 is used as the interface address when running in any BASIC environment other than IBASIC.

•NRAM size is zero.

•RDISK size is zero.

The configuration file (VXIDLD.CFG or VXIDLD_CFG) on your driver distribution disk is shipped with all entries commented out. In this state, the download programs will use the default values shown above. To activate or change an entry, you must edit the file manually. The file is set up so that it can be edited either by a standard text editor or word processor, or with a Basic language editor. Comments and instructions are included in the file.

•The beginning of the useful information on each line is the part following "linenum ber REM" (the "linenum ber REM" is ignored).

•All lines beginning with "# " are comments.

•Lines that start with "# # " are intended to remain comments.

•Lines that start with "# " are example lines that you may wish to activate and/or modify. These are the actual configuration statements.

•Setting labels are not case sensitive, and should be separated from the associated value by an equal sign ("= ").

•Unrecognized settings are ignored.

•If you activate more than one line for a setting that can take only one value, the first value found for the setting will be used.

DIRECTORY= specifies the directory where you store your drivers and where the driver programs will log information about their progress. The default is the current directory. The directory specified must be writeable if you are doing downloads using IBASIC or logging progress.

EXECUTION LOG = specifies the place to log information about the program’s progress. The default location for this function is the screen. If you

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