Agilent Technologies 8922M, S GSM manual Line-by-line Entry and Editing, Entering Commands

Instrument BASIC

Entering and Editing Programs

Line-by-line Entry and Editing

Program lines in the Agilent 8922M/S’s RAM can be entered and edited one line at a time from your computer using the PROG command -

OUTPUT Addr;”PROG:EXEC ‘<program line/command> ’”

with <program/command> representing any command or program line you want to enter.

For example, to enter or change line 20 of a program to ‘20 A=3.14’, you would enter the following command on your computer

OUTPUT Addr;”PROG:EXEC ‘20 A=3.14 ’”

Quoted strings, such as those used in PRINT commands, must use double quotes. Example -

OUTPUT Addr;”PROG:EXEC ‘30 PRINT “”TEST”” ’”

Using a Terminal A connected terminal, or PC using a terminal emulator, is used to enter characters directly into the Agilent 8922M/S IBASIC Controller’s command line.

Editing a program line requires you to re-enter the full line with corrections.

Configuring your terminal/PC for this operation is explained in this chapter, ‘Serial Port Configuration for Programming” on page 8-6.

Entering Commands

When program lines or commands are entered, you press the ENTER key on your terminal to execute the command. For example, to LIST a program in RAM you would type LIST, ENTER

This differs from using the Cursor Control knob to enter characters where you select ‘Done’ to execute the command.

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