‘Bible 11-2. Code Naming Convention

Convention

Key Title

For HP-IB Code Use

Example

One Word

Power

First Four Letters

POWE

 

start

 

 

Two Words

Electrical Delay

First Three Letters of First Word, First Letter

ELED

 

 

of Second Word

 

 

Search Right

 

 

Two Words in a Group

Marker+Center

Four Letters of Both

MARKCENT

 

Gate +Span

 

GATESPAN

Three Words

Cal Kit N 60 0

First Three Lett.ers of First Word, First Letter

CALKNSO

 

 

of Second Word, First Four Letters of Third

 

 

 

Word

 

 

Pen Num Data

 

PENNDATA

 

 

 

 

Some codes require appendages (ON, OFF, 1, 2, etc). Codes that do not have a front-panel equivalent are HP-IB only commands. They use a similar convention based on the common name of the function.

Valid Characters

The analyzer accepts the following ASCII characters:

u letters

numbers

decimal points

n+/-

m semicolons (;)

nquotation marks (“) m carriage returns (CR) m linefeeds (LF)

Both upper- and lower-case letters are acceptable. Carriage returns, leading zeros, spaces, and unnecessary terminators are ignored, except for those within a command or appendage. If the analyzer does not recognize a character as appropriate, it generates a syntax error message and recovers at the next terminator.

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