how to save data from oscillscope in labview

[sjumesh]

hello,

i dono much about labview just now started learning it.

I need to save a data from oscillscope ( photodetector signal given to oscilloscope)  for a duration around 2 hrs contionusly.. can you please help me how to save the data...and  i need to plot the graph with that data...I have ni pxi 5105 digitizer, and ni pxie 1082...

thanks in advance...

[Dennis_Knutson]

For that amount of data, I would recommend using the TDMS functions. It stores data in binary format. Look at the examples that come with LabVIEW.