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COMMAND REFERENCE

Notes:

(1)A message that is specified as a sequency of literals can be sent to the instrument in any upper or lower case combination. The case of the characters has no semantical meaning.

(2)Upper and lower case characters in a syntax specification are used to distinguish between the short and long form of a mnemonic. Upper case specifies the mandatory short form of a mnemonic. The lower case characters specify the remaining part of the (optional) long form.

(3)Literals that are non-printable ASCII characters are underlined. For example, the symbol NL is used to specify the New Line character (0A hexadecimal).

(4)Some syntax specifications use the control symbol ^. The characters that follow this symbol specify a special message that is concurrently sent with the preceding data byte. For example, NL^End specifies that the NL code is sent concurrently with the End message (via the EOI line of the GPIB interface).

META SYMBOL:

MEANING:

EXPLANATION:

=

Is defined to be

Specifies equality.

 

 

Example: <manufacturer> = FLUKE

Alternative

Specifies an "either" "or" choice.

 

 

Example: <result> = 0 1

< ... >

Non-terminal

A non-terminal is a message element

 

symbol

whose syntax specification is defined

 

 

elsewhere. Example:

 

 

A node can be specified as INPut<n>.

 

 

The definition of <n> = [1] 2 is specified

 

 

at another line or even somewhere else.

[ ... ]

Default

This means that the syntax may or may

 

 

not contain the message element in

 

 

between the square brackets, without

 

 

changingthesemanticalmeaningExample:.

 

 

MEASure[:VOLTage][:DC]? means that

 

 

MEASure:VOLTage:DC? is the same

 

 

as MEASure? or MEASure:VOLTage?

 

 

or MEASure:DC?

{ ... }

Repetition

Specifies that the message element in

 

 

between the curly brackets may be

 

 

repeated 0 or more times. Example:

 

 

<parameter> {,<parameter>} specifies

 

 

a comma separated sequence of one or

 

 

more <parameter>’s.

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Fluke PM-3370B Default, Not contain the message element, Between the square brackets, without, Or MEASureDC?, Repetition