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Printing, Plotting, and Saving Measurement Results
Configuring a Plot Function
If You Are Plotting Measurement Results to a Disk Drive
The plot files that you generate from the analyzer, contain the HPGL representation of the
measurement display. The files will not contain any setup or formfeed commands.
CAUTION Do not mistake the line switch for the disk eject button when you are
removing the disk from the analyzer. If the line switch is mistakenly pushed,
the instrument will be turned off, losing all settings and data that have not
been saved.
1. Configure the analyzer to plot to disk.
a. Press .
b. Press and select the disk drive that you will plot to.
• Choose if you will plot to the analyzer internal disk drive.
• Choose if you will plot to a disk drive that is external to the
analyzer. Then configure the disk drive as follows:
1. Press and enter the GPIB
address to the disk drive (default is 00) followed by .
2. Press and enter the drive where your disk is
located, followed by .
3. If your storage disk is partitioned, press and enter the
volume number where you want to store the instrument state file.
2. Press .
The analyzer assigns the first available default file name f or the displayed directory. For
example, the analyzer would assign PLOT00FP for a LIF format (PLOT00.FP for a DOS
format) if there were no previous plot files saved to the disk.
Figure 4-4 shows the three parts of the file name that are generated automatically by
the analyzer whenever a plot is requested. The two digit sequence number is
incremented by one each time a file with a default name is added to the directory.
Local
SET ADDRESSES
PLOTTER PORT
DISK
Save/Recall
SELECT DISK
INTERNAL DISK
EXTERNAL DISK
CONFIGURE EXT DISK
ADDRESS: DISK
DSK
x1
Local
x1
VOLUME NUMBER
Copy
PLOT