Agilent Technologies 5000 Series :SYSTem Commands

294 Agilent InfiniiVision 5000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Reference

3Commands by Subsystem

:SYSTem Commands

Control basic system functions of the oscilloscope. See "Introduction to

:SYSTem Commands" on page 294.

Introduction to

:SYSTem

Commands

SYSTem subsystem commands enable writing messages to the display,

setting and reading both the time and the date, querying for errors, and

saving and recalling setups.

Table 54 :SYSTem Commands Summary

Command Query Options and Query Returns

:SYSTem:DATE <date>

(see page 295)

:SYSTem:DATE? (see

page 295)

<year> ::= 4-digit year in NR1

format

<month> ::= {1,..,12 | JANuary |

FEBruary | MARch | APRil | MAY |

JUNe | JULy | AUGust | SEPtember

| OCTober | NOVember | DECember}

<day> ::= {1,..31}

:SYSTem:DSP <string>

(see page 296)

n/a <string> ::= up to 254 characters

as a quoted ASCII string

n/a :SYSTem:ERRor? (see

page 297)

<error> ::= an integer error code

<error string> ::= quoted ASCII

string.

See Error Messages (see

page 499).

:SYSTem:LOCK (see

page 298)

:SYSTem:LOCK? (see

page 298)

<value> ::= {ON | OFF}

:SYSTem:SETup

<setup_data> (see

page 299)

:SYSTem:SETup? (see

page 299)

<setup_data> ::= data in IEEE

488.2 # format.

:SYSTem:TIME <time>

(see page 301)

:SYSTem:TIME? (see

page 301)

<time> ::= hours,minutes,seconds

in NR1 format