Screen capture of HP8562A using GPIB-PCMCIA card

Hi,
does anyone know if there is a way to do a s
creen capture of an HP8562A spectrum analyzer using
the GPIB-PCMCIA card? In the programming manual
I can only find how to print/plot the screen, is there a way to
save the screen in a file?
thanks!

See the NI488 command IBRDF
Iason Vassiliou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know if there is a way to do a s
> creen capture of an HP8562A spectrum analyzer using
> the GPIB-PCMCIA card? In the programming manual
> I can only find how to print/plot the screen, is there a way to
> save the screen in a file?
>
> thanks!
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