The next section explains how the syntax of individual commands is presented.

Notations Used to Express Syntax

The following describes the notations used in the syntax section of each command description:

Mnemonic

For readability, the mnemonic is shown in uppercase and separated from the parameters and/or terminator.

parameters

Parameters are shown in italic.

[ ]

Parameters in square brackets are optional.

[param1,param2...[,param1,param2]]

These optional parameters must be paired.

params...params

These parameters may be given the number of times specified in the command description.

text...text

This parameter indicates that you can type in a range of ASCII characters, such as in the Label (LB) command.

(....)

Indicates that you can use a range of the previous parameter; however, all X coordinates must have a corresponding Y coordinate.

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