Agilent E2050A access from non-EPICS applications

[Eric Norum <eric.norum@usask.ca>]

Do you use non-EPICS applications to communicate with GPIB devices
through the Agilent E2050A GPIB/LAN adapter from Solaris or Linux
hosts?  If so, how do you do this?  I have not been able to find any
libraries that provide this access.  National Instruments provides a
Linux shared library to provide C-callable subroutines to communicate
with devices through their GPIB-ENET adapter, but Agilent provides
nothing comparable.

This causes a problem.  If I want to use non-EPICS applications (Tcl/Tk,
standalone C programs, etc.) on my Linux/Solaris machines I have to use
the GPIB-ENET adapter.  If I want to use EPICS applications I have to
use an E2050A.

I could use the excellent EPICS driver from Benjamin Franksen as a
starting place for implementing a library matching the National
Instruments API (ibfind, ibdev, ibrd, ...) but I'd like to avoid that
much work if I can!

Thanks,
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Eric Norum                                 eric.norum@usask.ca
Department of Electrical Engineering       Phone: (306) 966-5394
University of Saskatchewan                 FAX:   (306) 966-5407
Saskatoon, Canada.