Reference
Creating a Dire
ctory. To create a directory, use the general purpose knob and
Select button to select the working directory where you want the new directory to
reside. Push the Create Directory screen button, and enter or edit the file name
using the screen buttons described in the previous table. (See p age 87.)
Formatting a USB Flash Drive. To format a USB flash drive, insert it into the USB
flash drive port. Push the Format s
creen button and then push the OK Confirm
Format screen button to confirm the operation. If you decide not to format the
flash drive, p ush the Menu Off button to stop the format operation.
CAUTION. To avoid loss of data, do not format USB flash drives that already
contain important data. When you format a USB flash drive, all files and
directories will be er ased and can never be recovered.
Setting Protections. The oscilloscope provides two protections to help you
prevent accidental loss of data:
Confirm Delete shows a confirmation message each time you try to d elete a
file. You can turn Confi rm Delete off if you do not want to see the message.
Overwrite Lock p revents the oscilloscope from writing over existing files. You
can turn Overwrite Lock off if you want to be able to write over existing files.
File Extensions. Files written by the oscilloscope have the following extensions.
The oscilloscope can only read files with the SET, MSK, and ISF extensions.
File extension File type
*.SET Saved setup file
*.ISF Saved waveform file, Internal format
*.CSV Saved waveform file, Spreadsheet format
*.DAT Saved waveform file, Mathcad format
*.TJ Hard copy file, Thinkjet format
*.DJ Hard copy file, Deskjet format
*.LJ Hard copy file, Laserjet format
*.IBM Hard copy file, Epson format
*.IMG Hard copy file, Interleaf format
*.TIF Hard copy fi le, TIFF format
*.RLE Hard copy file, RLE format
*.PCX Hard copy file, PCX format
*.BMP Hard copy file, BMP form at
*.EPS Hard copy file, EPS format
*.BJC H ard copy file, Bubble Jet format
*.DPU Hard copy file, Seiko DPU-3445 format
*.GZ Gnuzip-compressed hard copy file
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