Agilent Technologies B2201A manual Textual Notation for Subsystem Commands, Capital Letters

SCPI Command Reference

Textual Notation for Subsystem Commands

CAPITAL
LETTERS	Capital letters are the minimally required letters of the
	command header. Lowercase letters are the long form
	(complete spelling), which you can omit if desired.
	For example, for :SYSTem:CCONfig?, you only need to
	specify :SYST:CCON?.
[ ]	Square brackets are used to enclose optional information not
	required for execution of the command sequence.
	For example, for the [:ROUTe]:BIAS:PORT command, you can
	execute :ROUT:BIAS:PORT or :BIAS:PORT, which are
	exactly the same.
italic font	Text you supply. For example, for card_number, you enter an
	allowed card number. Also, used to represent response data.
	Vertical bar can be read as “or” and is used to separate
	alternative parameter options.
{ }	Braces (curly brackets) are used to enclose one or more
	parameters that may be included zero or more times.
< >	Angular brackets indicate that the word or words enclosed
	represent something other than themselves. For example,
	<newline>.

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