DAQ Toolbox for Scilab (Version 0.2.2)
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DAQ Toolbox provides a rather direct interface to the NI-DAQmx Base 2.x
C API under Linux or Windows.

DAQ Toolbox can be used with NI-DAQmx 2.x/3.x or NI-DAQmx 8.x/9.x.

This is experimental software and it may contain numerous and severe bugs!

Author:   Dirk Reusch, Kybernetik Dr. Reusch
Download: http://www.kybdr.de/software

Requirements
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- Linux/Windows
- NI-DAQmx Base 2.x/3.x or NI-DAQmx 8.x/9.x
- ScicosLab 4.4
- C-Compiler (GCC/Visual C++)

Installation
============

Please check the variables "cflags" and "ldflags" in file
"sci_gateway/buildsci_gateway.sce" and if necessary apply
appropriate changes for your NI-DAQmx installation.

To Install this toolbox:

We Suppose here that <PATH> stands for  the path of the directory
containing this readme.txt file.

- On Unix/Linux systems
     * Administrator
        Has to execute, once and for all, the following instruction 
        within Scilab:
        exec <PATH>/builder.sce 
        This operation requires a C compiler and permission to
        write in 
        - <PATH>/sci_gateway to generate Makefile *.o, toto.a  files 
        - <PATH>/macros to generate *.bin, names and lib files
     * User
        Should execute the following instruction within Scilab:
        exec <PATH>/loader.sce 
        before using the toolbox, he  can also put it  in his
        .scilab startup file for automatic loading.

- On Windows systems
     * Administrator
        Has to execute, once and for all, the following instruction 
        within Scilab:
        exec <PATH>\builder.sce 
        This operation requires VisualC++ compiler and permission to
        write in 
         - <PATH>\src to generate Makefile *.obj, *.dll, ... files 
         - <PATH>\macros to generate *.bin, names and lib files 
     * User
        Should execute the following instruction within Scilab:
        exec <PATH>\loader.sce
        before using the toolbox, he  can also put it  in his
        .scilab startup file for automatic loading.

Contents
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README             : this file
COPYING            : license GPLv3
loader.sce         : installation script
builder.sce        : script for buliding library
sci_gateway        : directory of C interfacing routines
macros             : directory of Scilab macros
     *.sci         : source versions
     *.bin         : precompiled binary versions (generated)
     names         : table of functions (generated)
     lib           : scilab library binary save (generated)
help               : directory for help.
     *.xml         : XML-source of help pages
     *.htm         : compiled HTML-pages (generated)
     whatis.htm    : short function descriptions (generated)
demos              : directory of examples
     *.sce         : example Scilab scripts