Anritsu ML2430A operation manual Query Commands, Arbitrary Ascii, Arbitrary Block

QUERY COMMANDS GPIB OPERATION

	“1/15/98"
	”Save “”cal_file"" now."
	'Save “cal_file” now.'
<Arbitrary ASCII>	This notation represents undelimited 7-bit ASCII text. The end of the text must be
	terminated with the line feed character (0Ah, decimal 10) or a GPIB End of Trans-
	mission State (EOI), or both. This requirement makes it necessary for <Arbitrary
	ASCII> text to be transmitted only at the end of a program or response message,
	that is, at the end of a multiple input or output statement.
	Example of data represented by <Arbitrary ASCII> notation:
	Anritsu,2410A,123456,1.0<0A^EOI> The example shows a sample response
	from the *IDN?, 488.2 common query. In the example, the instrument identifies it-
	self as an Anritsu 2410A, with serial number 123456, and software version 1.0 in-
	stalled. Note that decimal 10 (0Ah character) must be sent with the EOI to signal
	end of transmission.
<Arbitrary Block>	This notation represents data transmitted as 8-bit data bytes (00-FF hex, 0-255
	decimal, notation is <DAB>). Useful for transmitting large blocks of formatted
	ASCII or binary data or unformatted binary data. The data stream is immediately
	preceded by a variable length ASCII header that is encoded with the number of
	data bytes to be sent. The header always starts with the (#) character.

6-4QUERY COMMANDS Many ML24XXA (native) GPIB commands have an equivalent query command that will return a current value or setting. Query commands and their returned strings are provided with each command where applicable.

A complete listing of valid query commands and returned strings is provided in

Appendix B, Section B-2.

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