Agilent Technologies Agilent E5250A *OPC

Agilent E5250A User’s Guide, Edition 9 7-9

Command Reference

*OPC

This command starts to monitor pending operations, and sets/clears the Operation

Complete (OPC) bit in the Standard Event Status Register as follows:

• If there is no pending operation, sets the OPC bit to 1.

• If there are any pending operations, sets the OPC bit to 0. The bit will be set to 1

again when all pending operations are completed.

So, *OPC command is required to enable the OPC bit. To stop monitoring pending

operations (disable OPC bit), execute the *CLS command.

For details about the Standard Event Status Register, refer to “Standard Event S tatus

Syntax *OPC

Query response 1 <newline><^END>

*OPC? places ASCII character 1 into the Output Queue when all pending

operations are completed. For details, refer to “Output Queue” on page 7-55.

Example OUTPUT @Hp5250;"*OPC"

The following example is for query:

OUTPUT @Hp5250;"*OPC?"

ENTER @Hp5250;A