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| author | daniel <danieruru@gmail.com> | 2013-01-23 13:17:52 +0900 |
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| committer | daniel <danieruru@gmail.com> | 2013-01-23 13:17:52 +0900 |
| commit | c53ea096ab5a656f93ad2aed8d50f5dd346f91c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5dbd48863285fe0a6f6f19fbd4b916d6ce7b4cde /libvxi11client/perlbits/README | |
| parent | 63f018d9d0a4b1ae11f9adb6f5bd3c9315b00130 (diff) | |
Update docs, add the "global" functions to the export list, add the reason from read to the stuff that gets returned.
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diff --git a/libvxi11client/perlbits/README b/libvxi11client/perlbits/README index ba3e278..d036787 100644 --- a/libvxi11client/perlbits/README +++ b/libvxi11client/perlbits/README @@ -4,26 +4,6 @@ VXI11-Client version 0.01 This module is a wrapper around a C library that uses libc's built in Sun RPC support to talk to VXI11 networked instruments. -It supports only one instrument at a time. - -Interrupts work by creating the interrupt channel, enabling interrupts -and then using wait_for_interrupt() to wait for an interrupt to happen. -wait_for_interrupt() blocks until a interrupt happens or a timeout occurs. -If an interrupt happens before it is called it returns immediately. -If multiple interrupts happen before it is called it will return immediately -until all the fired interrupts are cleared. - -Return codes work like this; -1 - is a success -0 - means the request failed locally, the state inside the client is -incorrect, i.e. calling to enable interrupts before creating the channel -or that the server couldn't be contacted -< 0 - Any negative value is the negated VXI-11 error code from the server - -The only exceptions to this are the read and write methods -0 - Error as above or zero bytes read/written -> 0 - Number of bytes read/written - INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: |