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From: Jesse Lai &lt;someone@somewhere.com&gt;
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I'd like to be able to programatically scan either a GPIB or TCPIP bus 
to find connected instruments similar to how the TMTOOL or other similar 
applications do (NI MAX, Agilent IO Libraries, etc).

I do not even know where to begin this process though as the instrument 
control toolbox by itself only allows connections to known instruments. 
   Has someone out there done this before that could provide some 
insight  into the best way to accomplish what I want to do?

I'd like to be able to find the attached instruments on the bus, run the 
  *IDN? query to find the identifier and then report the results.

Thanks,

Jesse Lai

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