GPIB Error Strings

 

Error Codes

Table 18 Overview for Supported Strings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Error

 

 

 

 

 

 

New/Old/Standard

Number

String

 

 

 

 

 

Standard

-109

"Missing parameter"

 

 

 

[Fewer parameters were recieved than required for the header]

 

Standard

-112

"Program mnemonic too long"

 

 

 

[The header contains more than twelve characters (see IEEE 488.2,

 

 

 

7.6.1.4.1).]

 

Standard

-113

"Undefined header"

 

 

 

[The header is syntactically correct, but it is undefined for this specific de-

 

 

 

vice; for example, *XYZ is not defined for any device.]

 

Standard

-120

"Numeric data error"

 

 

 

[This error, as well as errors -121 through -129, are generated when pars-

 

 

 

ing a data element which appears to be numeric, including the nondecimal

 

 

 

numeric types. This error message is used if the device cannot detect a

 

 

 

more specific error.]

 

Standard

-121

"Invalid character in number"

 

 

 

[An invalid character for the data type being parsed was encountered; for

 

 

 

example, an alpha in a decimal numeric]

 

Standard

-123

"Exponent too large"

 

 

 

[The magnitude of the exponent was larger than 32000 (see IEEE

 

 

 

488.2,7.7.2.4.1).]

 

Standard

-124

"Too many digits"

 

 

 

[The mantissa of a decimal numeric data element contained more than 255

 

 

 

digits excluding leading zeros (see IEEE 488.2, 7.7.2.4.1).]

 

Standard

-128

"Numeric data not allowed"

 

 

 

[A legal numeric data element was received, but the device does not ac-

 

 

 

cept one in this position for the header.]

 

Standard

-131

"Invalid suffix"

 

 

 

[The suffix does not follow the syntax described in IEEE 488.2, 7.7.3.2, or

 

 

 

thesuffix is inappropriate for this device.]

 

Standard

-134

“Suffix too long”

 

 

 

[The suffix contained more than 12 characters (see IEEE 488.2, 7.7.3.4).]

 

Standard

-138

“Suffix not allowed”

 

 

 

[A suffix was encountered after a numeric element which does not allow

 

 

 

suffixes.]

 

Standard

-141

“Invalid character data”

 

 

 

[Either the character data element contains an invalid character or the par-

 

 

 

ticular element received is not valid for the header.]

 

Standard

-148

“Character data not allowed”

 

 

 

[A legal character data element was encountered where prohibited by the

 

 

 

device.]

 

 

 

 

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