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=head1 NAME

Lab::VISA - Perl interface to the National Instruments VISA library

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This library offers a Perl interface to National Instruments' NI-VISA 
library. 

It is one of the possible backends for the high-level measurement control 
package L<Lab::Measurement>, but can also be used on its own.

L<Lab::VISA> is known to work with GPIB, TCP/IP and serial connections. Other interfaces
supported by the NI-VISA library are likely to work as well. The library
has been tested on both on Linux and on Windows.

=head1 INSTALLATION

Detailed installation instructions are given in L<Lab::VISA::Installation>.

=head1 FURTHER SUPPORT

In case you encounter any problems, you are encouraged to use a
public forum for discussion. This way future users will be able to take
advantage of your findings.

There is a mailing list set up, also for Lab::VISA, at
L<https://www-mailman.uni-regensburg.de/mailman/listinfo/lab-measurement-users>

Bugs can be reported to
L<https://github.com/lab-measurement/lab-measurement/issues>

You will also find that the authors of this package are always happy to receive feedback.

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

 This swig-based interface is
  (c) 2004-2006 Daniel Schröer
  (c) 2007-2010 Daniel Schröer, Andreas K. Hüttel, Daniela Taubert, and others 
  (c) 2011-2014 Andreas K. Hüttel

 It is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

 For the rest National Instruments or the VXI Consortium will probably have a word to say. See
 National Instrument's license for the NI-VISA library.