HP 8360 Local, Clear, Getting Started Programming l-59

Local

Local is the complement to REMOTE, causing an instrument to return to local control with a fully enabled front panel. The syntax is:

Some BASIC examples:

10 LOCAL 7

which effects all instruments in the network, or

10 LOCAL 719

for an addressed instrument (address 19).

Related statements used by some computers:

RESUME

Clear

Clear causes all HP-IB instruments, or addressed instruments, to assume a “cleared” condition, with the definition of “cleared” being unique for each device. For the synthesizer:

1.All pending output-parameter operations are halted.

2.The parser (the software that interprets the programming codes) is reset, and now expects to receive the first character of a programming code.

The syntax is:

Some BASIC examples:

10 CLEAR7

to clear all HP-IB instruments, or

10 CLEAR 719

Getting Started Programming l-59