Instrument configuration flexibility

[mbuttman]

I have found the visaconf.ini useful for storing alias information. So any LV vi that wants to communicate with an instrument can do so by typecasting the alias to VISA session. My problem is with instruments that have multiple slots/channels. Is there any way to hide this info in the visaconf.ini?

[Ray K]

Actually, it is possible to use an alias to hide information. For example, the following is an alias for a TCP/IP resource, note the use of multiple lines to handle the extended length of the alias.

Alias15 Line0001 = "'This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This"
Alias15 Line0002 = "_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a"
Alias15 Line0003 = "_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test_This_is_a_test"
Alias15 Line0004 = "_This','TCPIP::www.ni.com::80::SOCKET'"