saving a waveform in the harddisk

[varghese]

i have written a program to interface a HP54120A oscilloscope to the pc.
i want to save the waveform as a file in the pc. there is a vi for this purpose
in the instrument driver but i have no idea what format the file is saved
in. i dont know what to use to open it. i tried saving it as a bmp/gif file
but it doesnt work. has anyone faced a similiar situation for any other instrument
and if so, what did u do?

varghese

[Christopher Mitchell]

The data is acquired from the instrument using VISA read. This data (string datatype) is then saved in ASCII format to disk using Write Characters To File.vi. You
can then read the data by using the Read Characters from File.vi