Introduction to Programming Common Commands
30 Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition
Common Command Summary

Table3 gives a sum mary of the common commands.

Table3 Common Command Summary
Command Parameter Function Page
*CLS Clear Status Command page 57
*ESE Standard Event Status Enable Command page 57
*ESE? Standard Event Status Enable Query page58
*ESR? Standard Event Status Register Query page58
*IDN? Identification Query page 59
*OPC Operation Complete Co mmand page 59
*OPC? Operation Complete Query page60
*OPT? Options Query page60
*RST Reset Command page61
*STB? Read Status Byte Query page 61
*TST? Self Test Query page62
*WAI Wait Command page63

These commands are described in more detail in IEEE-Common

Commands” on page56.

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