- GPIB-PC User Manual for the IBM Personal Computer and Compatibles April 1988 Edition Part Number 320014-01

Section Four A BASICA/QuickBASIC GPIB-PC Function Calls
©National Instruments Corp. 4A-5 GPIB-PC User Manual
To run your program from within the QuickBASIC editor use the
QuickBASIC BUILDLIB command to add QBIB*.OBJ to your user
library, and load that library when loading QuickBASIC. For example,
if you are already using a library called USERLIB.EXE, add
QBIB2.OBJ to it by entering:
BUILDLIB USERLIB.OBJ QBIB2.OBJ;
Then to run QuickBASIC enter:
QB /L USERLIB.EXE
To run your program from within the QuickBASIC interactive
environment, use the LINK command to create a QuickLibrary. For
example, to create a QuickLibrary called QBIB4.QLB, enter:
LINK /Q QBIB4.OBJ,,,BQLB40.LIB;
Then to run QuickBASIC enter:
QB /L QBIB4.QLB
To run your program from MS DOS, follow the instructions in the
QuickBASIC User's Manual which pertain to compiling and linking
programs. Use the file QBIB4.OBJ for linking purposes.
BASICA/QuickBASIC GPIB-PC I/O Functions
The most commonly needed I/O functions are IBRD and IBWRT. In
BASICA, these functions read and write from a character string that
may be up to 255 bytes long.
In addition, integer I/O functions (IBRDI and IBWRTI) are provided for
users whose data strings are longer than 255 bytes, or who need to