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C-2 Program Examples in Quick Basic
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TempScan / MultiScan, Appendix C
The QuickBASIC
and
INPUT
commands are used to communicate with the driver. The most-
commonly used driver commands are
ENTER
,
OUTPUT
, and
SPOLL
, as follows:
•
ENTER
gets data from the selected device, The syntax of the
ENTER
command is
"ENTERaddr"
, where
addr
is the IEEE 488 address of the instrument. Right after the
ENTER
command, the QuickBASIC
INPUT
function must be used to bring the data into a language variable.
•
OUTPUT
sends data to the selected device. The syntax of the
OUTPUT
command is
"OUTPUTaddr;out
data"
, where
addr
is the IEEE 488 address of the instrument, and
out data
is the string of
characters to send to the device.
•
SPOLL
is an abbreviation for Serial Poll which retrieves an 8-bit status response from the selected
instrument. The syntax of the
SPOLL
command is
"SPOLLaddr"
, where
addr
is the IEEE 488
address of the instrument. Right after the
SPOLL
command, the QuickBASIC
INPUT
function must be
used to bring the data into a language variable.
Note: In all of the following examples, the IEEE 488 bus address is
07
.