Agilent Technologies 5000 Series manual SYSTem Commands Summary

3Commands by Subsystem

:SYSTem Commands

Control basic system functions of the oscilloscope. See "Introduction to :SYSTem Commands" on page 294.

Table 54 :SYSTem Commands Summary

Command	Query	Options and Query Returns
:SYSTem:DATE <date>	:SYSTem:DATE? (see	<date> ::= <year>,<month>,<day>
(see page 295)	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>	n/a	<string> ::= up to 254 characters
(see page 296)		as a quoted ASCII string
n/a	:SYSTem:ERRor? (see	<error> ::= an integer error code
	page 297)	<error string> ::= quoted ASCII
		string.
		See Error Messages (see
		page 499).
:SYSTem:LOCK (see	:SYSTem:LOCK? (see	<value> ::= {ON OFF}
page 298)	page 298)
:SYSTem:SETup	:SYSTem:SETup? (see	<setup_data> ::= data in IEEE
<setup_data> (see	page 299)	488.2 # format.
page 299)
:SYSTem:TIME <time>	:SYSTem:TIME? (see	<time> ::= hours,minutes,seconds
(see page 301)	page 301)	in NR1 format

Introduction to SYSTem subsystem commands enable writing messages to the display, :SYSTem setting and reading both the time and the date, querying for errors, and

Commands saving and recalling setups.

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