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OA 5000 Series User Manual 3 --- 5
Command Syntax
You can control the OA 5000 through the GPIB using a large group of com-
mands and queries. This section describes the syntax these commands and
queries use and the conventions the OA 5000 uses to process them. The
commands and queries themselves are listed in the section entitled Com-
mands.
You transmit commands to the OA 5000 using the enhanced American
Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character encoding.
Appendix C includes a chart of the ASCII character set.
This manual uses Backus-Naur Form (BNF) notation and syntax diagrams to
describe commands and queries. The syntax diagrams follow the notations
and conventions of the ANSI/IEEE Std 488.2-1987, section 7.2.
This manual uses the following BNF symbols listed in Table 3-1.
Table 3 -1: BNF Symbols and Meanings
Symbol
Meaning
<> Defined element
::= Is Defined As
| Exclusive OR
{} Group; one element is required
[] Optional; can be omitted
... Previous element(s) may be repeated
() Comment
You can stop any query or process by using the Device Clear (DCL) GPIB
interface message.
Clearing the
OA 5000