README.TXT for Agilent E1460 Multiplexer 

Contents:

1    Introduction

2    VISA Specific Information
2.1    Instrument Addresses
2.2    Executing the Soft Front Panel without VISA

3    Using the Agilent E1460 Driver in Application Development Environments
3.1    Microsoft Visual C/C++
3.2    Borland C/C++
3.3    Microsoft Visual Basic

4.0  WINDOWS 7 x64 Installation. Additional upgrade needed.

5.0  Online Information

6.0  Revision History

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1.   Introduction

The help file included with the Agilent E1460 VXIplug&play driver contains
instrument and programming information. This readme file contains
additional information for the Agilent VXIplug&play programmer.

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2.   VISA Specific Information

The following topics refer to instances when the driver is used with
different versions of VISA.

2.1    Instrument Addresses

When using Agilent VXIplug&play instrument drivers, instrument addresses
must be all uppercase letters. Implementation of the addressing scheme is
vendor specific and some vendors support mixed cases. However, for
maximum portability, the instrument address should use uppercase
characters only.

For example:  use "VXI0::56::INSTR" instead of "vxi0::56::instr"

2.2  Executing the Soft Front Panel without VISA

The VISA dynamic link library provides a communication library between
your program and the instrument.  If you receive a message that
VISA.DLL cannot be found when executing the soft front panel
(hpe1460.exe), VISA is not installed on your system. To communicate
with the Agilent E1460, you must install VISA from discs supplied with
your computer or I/O card.  However, it is still possible to execute
the soft front panel in a demonstration mode without VISA and/or the
Agilent E1460.  Simply press 'ok' when the dialog box appears and the
soft front panel will then become available.

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3.   Using the Agilent E1460 Driver in Application Development Environments

This section offers suggestions on using the hpe1460.dll within
various application development environments.

3.1    Microsoft Visual C/C++

Refer to your Microsoft Visual C/C++ manuals for information on linking
and calling .DLLs.

Rebuilding the driver requires header files located in the
~\winnt\hpe1460 or ~\win95\hpe1460 directory.  The ~ refers to the
directory in the VXIPNPPATH variable.  By default this is set to
C:\VXIPNP on Agilent I/O Libraries revisions prior to J.01.00; or
to C:\Program Files\VISA on revisions J.01.00 or later.

3.2    Borland C/C++

Refer to your Borland C/C++ manuals for information on linking and
calling .DLLs.

3.3   Microsoft Visual Basic

Refer to the Microsoft Visual BASIC manual for information on calling DLLs.
The BASIC include file is hpe1460.bas, which is contained in the directory
~\winnt\include or ~\win95\include. The ~ refers to the directory in the
VXIPNPPATH variable.  By default this is set to C:\VXIPNP on Agilent I/O
Libraries revisions prior to J.01.00; or to C:\Program Files\VISA on
revisions J.01.00 or later.

Note that Microsoft Visual BASIC does not support instrument callback
features.  Therefore, these functions have been omitted from the
include file.

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4.0  WINDOWS 7 x64 Installation. Additional upgrade needed.

Version A.02.11 consists of an upgrade to the Installation software for 
installing the E1460A driver on Windows 7 systems. You must also install 
the following software upgrade:

	   In Windows 7, the update WinHlp32.exe is required to display 32-bit
           Help files that have the ".hlp" file name extension. The
           update is available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607. 


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5.0  Online Information

The latest copy of this instrument driver and other Agilent instrument
drivers are available at the Agilent Technologies customer WWW site:

            http://www.agilent.com/find/inst_drivers

The Agilent E1460 driver is located in a self-extracting archive file called 
e1460.exe.

If you do not have Internet access, the drivers can be obtained by
contacting your country support organization.  In the US, the phone
number is 800-452-4844.  A list of contact information for other
countries is available on the Access Agilent Technologies website:

          http://www.agilent.com/find/assist

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6.0  Revision History

  A.01.00  December 15, 1995  Initial Release.
  A.01.01  April 15, 1996  
  A.02.00  August 5, 1996     Initial Win95/NT release
  A.02.01  November 13, 1996  Fixed Stack Size bug in Soft Front Panel
  A.02.02  December 2, 1996   No real changes, just made version numbers consistent

                              hpe1460_32.dll   :  A.02.02
                              hpeswit32v.dll   :  G.08.01
                              hpescan32v.dll   :  G.08.01
                              hpvscp32.dll     :  G.02.02

  A.02.03  November 1997      Fixed typos in hpe1460.bas.  
                              Updated to new scpi core.
                              Other files remain at rev A.02.02

                              hpe1460_32.dll   :  A.02.02
                              hpeswit32v.dll   :  G.08.01
                              hpescan32v.dll   :  G.08.01
                              hpvscp32.dll     :  G.03.00

  A.02.04  April 3, 1998      Fixed High-Speed computer problems.

                              hpe1460_32.dll   :  A.02.04
                              hps1460.exe      :  A.02.04
                              hpeswit32v.dll   :  G.09.00
                              hpescan32v.dll   :  G.09.00
                              hpvscp32.dll     :  G.03.01

  A.02.05  June 12, 1998      Switchbox dll update

                              hpe1460_32.dll   :  A.02.04
                              hps1460.exe      :  A.02.04
                              hpeswit32v.dll   :  G.09.01
                              hpescan32v.dll   :  G.09.01
                              hpvscp32.dll     :  G.03.01

  A.02.07  November 4, 1998   Switchbox dll update

                              hpe1460_32.dll   :  A.02.04
                              hps1460.exe      :  A.02.04
                              hpeswit32v.dll   :  G.10.01
                              hpescan32v.dll   :  G.10.01
                              hpvscp32.dll     :  G.03.01

  A.02.08  July 9, 1999      Switchbox dll update

                              hpe1460_32.dll   :  A.02.08
                              hps1460.exe      :  A.02.04
                              hpeswit32v.dll   :  G.10.02
                              hpescan32v.dll   :  G.10.02
                              hpvscp32.dll     :  G.03.03
                              visaext.dll      :  H.01.00.01

  A.02.09  January 21, 2000   Updated readme.txt with Agilent names

                              hpe1460_32.dll   :  A.02.08
                              hps1460.exe      :  A.02.04
                              hpeswit32v.dll   :  G.10.02
                              hpescan32v.dll   :  G.10.02
                              hpvscp32.dll     :  G.03.03
                              visaext.dll      :  H.01.00.01

  A.02.10  October 30, 2001   Agilent rebranding

                              hpe1460_32.dll   :  A.02.09
                              hps1460.exe      :  A.02.05
                              hpeswit32v.dll   :  G.11.02
                              hpescan32v.dll   :  G.11.02
                              hpvscp32.dll     :  G.03.04
                              visaext.dll      :  K.01.00.00

  A.02.11  June 1, 2012   WINDOWS 7 x64 Installation InstallShield Update

            This release updates the InstallShield for
            installations only on XP, WIN 7 x86 and 
            WIN 7 x64 operating systems.The driver itself has
            not changed. For Win 95 or Win NT support,
            utilze version  A.02.10.
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