Concatenating Commands - Tektronix DG2020A Programmer's Manual

Command Syntax

Concatenating Commands

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Common Command Header. A command that precedes its header mnemonic with
an asterisk (*). Its message format is:
<Header Mnemonic> [<Argument>[,<Argument>]...]
such as:
*RST
The common commands are defined by IEEE Std 488.2 and are common to all
devices which support IEEE Std 488.2 on the GPIB bus.
Common Query Header. A command that precedes its header mnemonic with an
asterisk (*) and follows it with a question mark (?). Its message format is:
<Header Mnemonic>? [<Argument>[,<Argument>]...]
such as:
*IDN?
The common commands are defined by IEEE Std 488.2 and are common to all
devices which support the IEEE Std 488.2 on the GPIB bus.
Most of the compound command headers are in a tree structure. The tree
structure of an example command is diagrammed below. Note that the top of the
structure always begins with a colon (:).
:DATA:
GROUP MSIZE
ADD BIT DEFINE ...
The following example of a compound command combines three headers
delimited by semicolons:
:DATA:BLOCK:ADD 512,"BLOCK3"; :DATA:BLOCK:DELETE "BLOCK2";
:DATA:BLOCK:SIZE "BLOCK1",512
You must include the complete path in each header when there is no common
complete path to the start of the tree structure (the colon). However, note that
part of each header in the above example has a common path :DATA:BLOCK. You
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