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2.4 KiB
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68 lines
2.4 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 2010, Joerg Wunsch
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd January 24, 2010
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.Dt GPIB 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm gpib
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.Nd General-Purpose Instrument Bus (GPIB) driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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Either of the
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.Xr pcii 4
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or
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.Xr tnt4882 4
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drivers use this driver as the backend.
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver provides support for driving an IEEE-488 bus, also called
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IEC-625 (or just "IEC bus"), or HP-IB (Hewlett Packard Instrument
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Bus), or GPIB (General Purpose Instrument Bus).
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The device can become either a listener, talker, controller, and
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in particular a master controller on the bus.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /dev/gpibNNib
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.It Pa /dev/gpib Ns Em N Ns "ib"
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Main device node to access the driver.
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.It Pa /dev/gpib Ns Em N Ns "l"
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Listen-only entry to the driver.
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When opening, an instrument can send data to this device on the
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bus in an unaddressed mode, for example hard-copy printer data.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.\" .Xr libgpib 3 ,
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.Xr gpib 4 ,
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.Xr tnt4882 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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driver was written by Poul-Henning Kamp, and first appeared in
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.Fx 5.4 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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This manual page was written by
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.An J\(:org Wunsch .
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