ENABLELOCAL(3)

✨ ENABLELOCAL ✨ (that's the EnableLocal page from section 3 of the linux-gpib manual, bestie 💅)

okay so picture this: your GPIB devices are out here living in remote mode, being all controlled and whatever, and you're like... bestie, I just want to push your buttons myself. that's literally what this function is for. it puts devices into local mode. slay. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

EnableLocal — put devices into local mode. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. no cap. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <gpib/ib.h>

void EnableLocal(int board_desc, const Addr4882_t addressList[]);

look at her. two args. clean. iconic. 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓: EnableLocal() addresses all of the devices hanging out in the addressList array as listeners, and then it sends the GTL (go to local) command byte, which makes them all enter local mode. it's giving "everybody get in, we're going local". 🚌✨

but bestie, heads up: this requires that the board is the controller-in-charge. no CIC, no local-mode magic. periodt.

also, an important lil note that lowkey matters a lot 👀 — while the REN (remote enable) bus line is asserted, the devices will just return to remote mode the next time they are addressed. so yeah, they'll boomerang right back. don't say I didn't warn you. 💀

and if addressList is empty or NULL? then the REN line is unasserted and all devices enter local mode. all of them. the whole squad. 🫶 but — and this is the catch — the board must be system controller to change the state of the REN line. main character board energy only. 👑

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright © 2003-2006, 2008 Frank Mori Hess

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this was page ENABLELOCAL(3) from linux-gpib 4.3.7, dated 07/06/2026. go forth and go local. mwah. 💅🌸✨