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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, john@ece.arizona.edu (John Galbraith),
        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, randal@comtest.com, dufault@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: new GPIB driver
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From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 22 Jul 1998 10:40:08 +0200
In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:22:53 +0200"
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes:

> In message <199807212317.QAA02618@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes:
> >
> >Randal, I think this just might be your lucky day.  8)
> >
> >> I have a new GPIB driver that supports National products AT/GPIB and
> >> GPIB/TNT.  I believe it to be significantly better than the one
> >> currently included in FreeBSD-2.2.6 (in /sys/i386/isa/gpib.c).
> 
> Now, I havn't worked with GPIB since my days at Commodore, but just a
> few days ago I talked to a lab-programmer, and he was very interested
> in a "serious GPIB" interface, in particular if it came with a non-C
> interface for script people like him.  Do you have anything that would
> allow the use of this driver from shell/tcl/perl/whatever for people
> like him ?

I'll probably have to write a clone for NI's libgpib. I intend to
write an interface to Python for that. But that won't be today or
tomorrow, it's more likely to be in the course of a few months. SWIG
could probably be used to generate interfaces for several scripting
languages.

tg

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