Agilent Technologies E1300B, E1301B, 75000 SERIES B user manual Common Command Reference

Common

Command

Reference

This section describes the IEEE -488.2 Common Commands that can be used to program instruments in the mainframe. Commands are listed by command groups in the summary table below, and alphabetically in the rest of this section. Examples are shown when the command has parameters or returns a response; otherwise the command string is as shown in the headings in this section. For additional information on any Common Commands, refer to the IEEE Standard 488.2-1987(see "Related Documentation" in the front of this manual for more information on this standard).

IEEE 488.2 Common Commands Functional Groupings

Category	Command	Title
G eneral	*IDN	Identification Query
	*RST	Reset Command
	*TST?	Self-Test Query
Instrument Status	*CLS	Clear Status Command
	*ESE < mask>	Standard Event Status Enable
	*ESE?	Command
	*ESR?	Standard Event Status Enable
	*PSC	Query
	*PSC?	Standard Event Status Register
	*SRE < mask>	Query
	*SRE?	Power-On Status Clear Command
	*STB?	Power-On Status Clear Query
Macros	*DMC < name> ,< cmds>	Service Request Enable Command
	*EMC < state>	Service Request Enable Query
	*EMC?	Status Byte Query
	*GMC? < name>	Define Macro Command
	*LMC?	Enable Macros Command
	*PMC	Enable Macro Query
	*RMC < name>	Get Macro Query
Synchronization	*OPC	Learn Macro Query
	*OPC?	Purge all Macros Command
	*WAI	Remove individual Macro
		Command
		Operation Complete Command
		Operation Complete Query
		Wait-to-Continue Command

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