<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR><STYLE></STYLE></HEAD><BODY bgColor=#ffffff><DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philippe</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class=701244509-16012004><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is a basic example written for testing under Vee5 some time ago, so its not the tidiest of programs but it shows the principles.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class=701244509-16012004><FONT face=Arial size=2>For some 856X analysers you might need change the DIO box containing the start stop freq etc to single queries.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=701244509-16012004>If multi looping over extended periods watch out for memory leaks, I've forgotten the detail but mixing text and real values in the same IO transaction box is to be avoided (its in the vee help somewhere!)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=701244509-16012004>Regards</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=701244509-16012004>Paul Rowan</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=701244509-16012004>BT Goonhilly</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=701244509-16012004><A href="http://www.goonhilly.bt.com">www.goonhilly.bt.com</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=701244509-16012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=701244509-16012004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=701244509-16012004> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> php [mailto:php.home@wanadoo.fr]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 14 January 2004 19:53<BR><B>To:</B> VRF<BR><B>Subject:</B> [vrf] Spectrum analyzer data Transfer<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The HP8560A analyzer is able to transfer the plots data in many formats (<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>A-block data format, binary data format, I I-block data format, <FONT face=Arial size=2>ASCII data format</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>We would like to perform a continous data gathering (something like a while loop), but we do not know which data format will be the fastest ?</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Which way would be the best; to use a component driver box or to directly send commands using a Direct IO box ?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for help,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe a such program has already be developped ?...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philippe.</FONT><FONT size=+0></DIV></FONT>---<BR>You are currently subscribed to vrf as: paul.2.rowan@bt.com<BR>To subscribe send a blank email to "join-vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com".<BR>To unsubscribe send a blank email to "leave-vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com".<BR>To send messages to this mailing list, email "vrf@agilent.com". <BR>If you need help with the mailing list send a message to "owner-vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com".<BR>Send your favorite VEE example to "VRF-EXAMPLES@agilent.com" for possible inclusion in VEE 7.0! </BLOCKQUOTE>---<BR>You are currently subscribed to vrf as: rsb@soco.agilent.com<BR>To subscribe send a blank email to "join-vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com".<BR>To unsubscribe send a blank email to "leave-vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com".<BR>To send messages to this mailing list, email "vrf@agilent.com". <BR>If you need help with the mailing list send a message to "owner-vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com".<BR>Send your favorite VEE example to "VRF-EXAMPLES@agilent.com" for possible inclusion in VEE 7.0!</BODY></HTML>