New GPIB-ENET/100 and VMS

[jagbass]

Our company bought the ESP-488 for the GPIB-ENET (part number 320910A-01) and spent time and money converting the Unix code supplied in the package to run on VMS which is not one of your supported platforms. My question is given that I buy a Windows version of the drivers to do management functions like assigning IP addresses, etc, will the VMS code that used to work with the old GPIB-ENET also work with the new GPIB-ENET/100?

Thanks in advance.

[pavanb]

Hello:

Thank you for contacting National Instruments!

The NI-GPIB driver works for the GPIB-ENET and GPIB-ENET/100, refer http://www.ni.com/support/gpib/versions.htm for the one required for a particular Windows version. The hardware can be used with different OS's just the driver changes.

Hope this helps. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Pavan B.

[jagbass]

Doesn't tell me anything that I didn't know and in no way answers my question. VMS is an operating system that has never been supported by National Instruments. The ESP-488 for the GPIB-ENET described the low level communication protocol of the original GPIB-ENET. Does the new GPIB-ENET/100 follow the same protocol?

[Ben]

Hi Jagbass,

I am not familiar with the ESP-488.
But,
I used to to do crash dump analysis on VMS system back when there was a DEC.
I have written code in VAX-Macro that took advantage of the promiscuous mode available in the network drivers.
I am now an engineer with one of NI Select Integrators.
If you are willing to give me some background info I may be of some help. If you would like to take this conversation off-line, you can e-mail me at
bar@dsautomation.com

Ben

[jagbass]

Ben was extremely helpful! Thanks!

[VMS developer]

We are interested in the results of the port and the functioning of the aplication.
Kind regards

Broer