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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:15:16 +0200
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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BobK wrote:
> Help!
> 
> Anybody out there make any National Instruments GPIB cards (PCI or ISA) 
> work with DJGPP?  I need to get a simple communication going between 
> such a board and several instruments.  No big speed or latency 
> requirements.  Simple I/O is fine.  No DMA or interrupts needed.
> 
> I have messed with the older NI ESP488 libraries as well as the newer 
> monster they call the GPIB NI-DDK.  I have yet to get either of these to 
> work.  The DDK is so abstracted it is very hard to follow (for me at 
> least).  the ESP488 is straightforward withe the exception that it is 
> for 16-bit DOS and uses DMA and interrupts.
> 
> -Bob
> 

There is an old port of now http://linux-gpib.sourceforge.net/ for DJGPP.
I tried several years ago with NI GPIB-AT card (it worked only if at first
initialized with NI tools). So I used NI Linux driver after that.

That old DJGPP port is perhaps now terribly outdated and it could perhaps
be difficult to find it anywhere (I may have it somewhere, but there is not
much hope that it could work with todays GPIB boards, it was old already
when I messed a bit with it)

Andris