User`s guide

4-12

Printing, Plotting, and Saving Measurement Results

Configuring a Plot Function

• Choose if you will plot to a disk drive that is external to the

analyzer. Then configure the disk drive as follows:

1. Press and enter the GPIB

address to the disk drive (default is 00) followed by .

2. Press and enter the drive where your disk is

located, followed by .

3. If your storage disk is partitioned, press and enter the

volume number where you want to store the instrument state file.

2. Press .

The analyzer assigns the first available default filename for the displayed directory. For

example, the analyzer would assign PLOT00FP for a LIF format (PLOT00.FP for a DOS

format) if there were no previous plot files saved to the disk.

Figure 4-4 shows the three parts of the file name that are generated automatically by

the analyzer whenever a plot is requested. The two digit sequence number is

incremented by one each time a file with a default name is added to the directory.

Figure 4-4 Automatic File Naming Convention for LIF Format

To Output the Plot Files

• You can plot the files to a plotter from a personal computer.

• You can output your plot files to an HPGL compatible printer, by following the sequence

in "Outputting Plot Files from a PC to an HPGL Compatible Printer" on page 4-23.

• You can run a program that plots all of the files, with the root filename of PLOT, to an

HPGL compatible printer. This program is provided on the CD-ROM of example

programs that is included in the programmer’s guide. However, this program is for use

with LIF formatted disks and is written in HP BASIC.

EXTERNAL DISK

CONFIGURE EXT DISK

ADDRESS: DISK

DSK

Local

DISK UNIT NUMBER

VOLUME NUMBER

Copy

PLOT