Hi all,
I'm sure this question has been asked and answered, but since I'm relatively new here, thanks in advance for your patience!
We have an MSO8104A and are intestested in saving setup file (.set) information to a text file on the PC connected to it, preferably through LabView. Any suggestions for this? We are already using LabView to save the screen displays to .PNG files on the PC.
Regards,
Nina
I'm sure this question has been asked and answered, but since I'm relatively new here, thanks in advance for your patience!
We have an MSO8104A and are intestested in saving setup file (.set) information to a text file on the PC connected to it, preferably through LabView. Any suggestions for this? We are already using LabView to save the screen displays to .PNG files on the PC.
Regards,
Nina
The setup files for your scope might actually be text files, but with a different file extension. The internal format is undocumented, and has changed multiple times. It is not intended that any user actually look at the file, or attempt to change it.
In addition, there is no facility, using scope remote control, to move files, of any type, from the scope to the controlling PC. You can save and load setup files to the scope's disk. If you mount a portion of your local PC as a remote disk (Z:\), then when you save the files on your scope, they will end up on your PC. I have used that successfully to move data between my controlling PC, and the scope many times. This might work for you.
If you want to save the scope setup, but don't care about the format, there is another solution. You can use the ":SYSTem:SETup?" command. It is a query that returns a binary block of data that represents the scope setup. You could save that block of data into a file (but not a text file) on your LabView controller. You could later read that file and write it back to the scope, to set the scope back up again.
Al