User`s manual

CHAPTER 3 PROGRAMMING REFERENCE

The programming examples and interpreter routines have been written to work around

these limitations and they should not placed any restrictions on your IEEE-488

applications.

3.3. Using QuickBASIC and BASIC Compiler

Calling the IEEE-488 routines in the firmware when using BASIC compiler or

QuickBASIC is almost the same way as using BASICA except the following two

areas.

1. When using the IEEE-488 routines in BASICA programming, the l; user does not

need to call the INIT routine (initialization) except the default setting is not used.

Uowever, the user need to call the INIT routine before calling any other IEEE488

routines when programming in BASIC compiler or QuickBASIC. When calling the

INIT routine, the bit 8 of the parameter SETTING% must be set to “1”.

2. The syntax to call the IEEE-488 firmware routines when programming in BASICA

is as:

CALL OUTPUT%(ADDR%,D$)

however, in BASIC compiler or QuickBASIC, the syntax is: lt

CALL ABSOLUTE(ADDR%, D$,0UTPUT%)

Note: When using QuickBASIC, the user needs to enter the develop-

ing environment by the command

QB/L

to load the library USERLIB.EXE. Otherwise, the word “ABSOLUTE” cannot be

recognized.

3.4. The Driver Routines

The following twenty one routines can be called by programs written in BASICA,

BASIC Compiler or QuickBASIC to access the IEEE-488 interface. QuickBASIC has

the same syntax as BASIC Compiler.