GPIB/RS232

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Feb-2006, Volker Lange wrote:

| Hallo,
| 
| I'm using OCTAVE for data analysis and like it very well.
| Next step will be the communication with measurement 
| instruments (DMM ,oscilloscope,...) via GPIB and/or RS232
| connection.
| Is there anything available for OCTAVE under Windows to do this,
| may be with the VISA-library?

Is the VISA library something that would have to be linked with
Octave?  Is it free software distributed under GPL-compatible terms?

I have plans to wrap the COMEDI library (http://www.comedi.org).
Would that also work for your purposes?

jwe



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