From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Announce: gpib lib port to DJGPP
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 15:17:02 +0100
Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik
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I have partially ported the GPIB library from
the Linux Lab Project (LLP) to DJGPP. The library
is mostly source code compatible to the version
of National Instruments for MSC and BC. 

What is it?
In lab environment, a lot of instruments like
voltmeters, scopes, printers may be connected
to a computer over the IEEE bus. The GPIB
library allows communication with these devices.


Where are difficulties?
The port is not yet complete and differs from the
linux version in this respects:
 - Only supports pcIIa cards
   (HP and pcII should be rather simple if
    you need it)
 - No DMA support, all IO is done over PIO
 - No Interrupt support, so no event scheduling

Why did I do it?
I need to communicate with Burst Spectrum Analyzers
for an LDA measurement. The original software 
that came with them is crap (at best), 16 Bit and
chokes if you have less than 600 kB free DOS
RAM. Even if, it mostly crashes. 


The library, including full source, RHIDE project
files, binaries, and an example can be found on
ftp://ftp.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/djgpp/gpib.zip

Docs are somewhere under
http://obelix.chemie.fu-berlin.de/
the home of LLP.

Next monday I'll upgrade the OS of the ftp-server, so 
it may be down. Just try again on tuesday. If it
is still down, I'm probably somewhere in South America.

Have a nice weekend.

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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