HP 8360 User Manual

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a semicolon. You must always end a program message with one of
the three program message terminators shown in Figure

Use

<new line>,

or <new line>

as the program message

terminator. The word

means that EOI is asserted on the

HP-IB interface at the same time the preceding data byte is sent.
Most programming languages send these terminators automatically.
For example, if you use the HP BASIC OUTPUT statement,
line> is automatically sent after your last data byte. If you are
using a PC, you can usually configure the system to send whatever

terminator you specify.

Subsystem Command Syntax

Figure

describes the basic syntax of SCPI subsystem commands.

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space,

ASCII characters 0

9

and

11,

32

Figure

Simplified Subsystem Command Syntax

As Figure

shows, there must be a <space> between the

last command mnemonic and the first parameter in a subsystem

command. This is one of the few places in SCPI where <space>

is required. Note that if you send more than one parameter with

a single command, you must separate adjacent parameters with a
comma. Parameter types are explained later in this subsection.

Common Command Syntax

Figure 1-31 describes the syntax of common commands.

Getting Started Programming

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