screen shot (the classical way :-) )

agiload is a downloading tool for data and screenshots from Agilent oscilloscopes of the 5462x series. It uses the off-the-shelf RS232 connection of the scope.

This tool can download screenshots form the scope in tif and bmp format:
agiload scr screen.tif
screen.tif - downloaded screen shot

screen shot (converted to jpeg)

Furthermore downloading of the sampled signals is possible:
agiload data screen.txt
screen.txt - downloaded data

I've tested this tool with an Agilent 54621A oscilloscope and Linux 2.6.26 .

For some more documentation look at the man page:

• agiload

agiload 0.0.6 - Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:56:06 +0200

• corrected error handling for command line option

agiload 0.0.5 - Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:49:36 +0200

• code cleanups for g++ 4.3.1

agiload 0.0.4 - Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:30:54 +0100

• a few cleanups

agiload 0.0.3 - Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:07:05 +0100

• new command: setdate to synchronize the date and time of the scope to the pc
• new commands: savesetup loadsetup to load and save the current settings of the scope
• added switch --baudrate to set the transmission speed of the serial line

agiload 0.0.2 - Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:02:46 +0100

• update for gcc 2.95 on debian/woody

• license: GPL
• source package agiload-0.0.6.tar.gz, 386k, 2010-Apr-23
• old versions

I've prepared a debian package for this program. You can download this via
apt-get update; apt-get install agiload
if you configure your system to include my debian repository.