Command Groups
2–42 TDS Family Oscilloscope Programmer Manual
Table 2–23 below shows the correlation between the number of channels in use
and the waveform record length.
Table 2–23: Extended-Acquisition-Length Mode Channels and Record Lengths
# of Channels in Use Extended Acquisition Length Waveform Record Length
1 of 4
(not on the TDS 520C and 724C) 8 M samples 500 K samples
2 of 4
(or on the TDS 520C and 724C: 1 of 2) 4 M samples 250 K samples
3 or 4 of 4
(or on the TDS 520C and 724C: 2 of 2) 2 M samples 100 K samples
From a software development viewpoint, to define how much of the extended
acquisition length data to include, you can use the ' and 
commands.
To define the waveform record within the extended acquisition data, you can use
the  )$#'! or the  )$#'! ' $# command.
The  query will return the extended acquisition data as you defined it
with ' and . With extended-acquisition-mode set to on,
this can be much larger than the waveform record. With extended-acquisition-
mode set to off, this is equal to the waveform record.
Also,  % will force ' and  to become the
boundaries of the waveform record.
Commands related to extended-acquisition-length mode operations include:
  %  & ' 
 )$#'!  )$#'!  )$#'!*
  )$#'! ' $#  )$#'! !!*
  and &(".
NOTE. Extended-acquisition-length mode CURVe? queries can easily return
more data than will fit on a 1.44 Mbyte floppy. For example, to return an entire
8 M extended acquistion mode record in ASCII format can require over
26.8 Mbytes of hard disk space. It can also take over 25 minutes to do this on
some models.