Saving File Type as .DAT

[Walt]

I am a really new user to Labview...
We want to develop a program which will do frequency response testing
for 3 channels; ( 4 channel analyzer)
We currently are using an HP 4 Channel Analyzer to do our testing.
We then take the saved data and view it through HP's DataViewer (and
also issue reports)
My biggest problem is that the HP Analyzer saves the data as a .dat file.
HP DataViewer then uses this .dat file to process the pages and spectrum.

How can I use labview to save the data as a .dat file inorder to continue
to
use HP's DataViewer?

[gxchem@my-deja.com]

In article <384bf974@newsgroups.ni.com>,
"Walt Kusaywa" wrote:
>
> I am a really new user to Labview...
> We want to develop a program which will do frequency response testing
> for 3 channels; ( 4 channel analyzer)
> We currently are using an HP 4 Channel Analyzer to do our testing.
> We then take the saved data and view it through HP's DataViewer (and
> also issue reports)
> My biggest problem is that the HP Analyzer saves the data as a .dat
file.
> HP DataViewer then uses this .dat file to process the pages and
spectrum.
>
> How can I use labview to save the data as a .dat file inorder to
continue
> to
> use HP's DataViewer?
>
The best way is to contact HP company to get the EXACT .dat saving
format (often binary with special data s
tructure),. And then you save
your data exactly according to the format by labview. It's not a big
deal after you know the saving format. (or if you like you could read
the .dat file bytes by bytes to determine the saving format. This
process will be time-consuming but possible depending on how much info
you know about the .dat file.

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