National Instruments GPIB-MAC User Manual page 86

November 1985
stat - Return GPIB-MAC Status
General Use function
Syntax: stat [[cl n]cCR>
stat [c] s&R>
stat [c] n s&R>
You use
Purpose:
see if certain conditions are currently present. You use
stat most often to see if the previous operation resulted
in an error.
Remarks: You should use stat frequently in the early stages of
your of your program development when your device's
responses are likely to be unpredictable. The GPIB-
MAC responds with status information in a form
depending on the mode or combination of modes you
chose.
returned as numeric strings. s indicates that the status
information will be returned in symbolic format, i.e.,
as mnemonic strings. c specifies that the status will be
returned after each programming message, eliminating
the need to call
Normally, you use s only when you are debugging your
code and you want to print the mnemonic for each piece
of status information.
The status information returned by the GPIB-MAC
contains four pieces of information: the GPIB-MAC
status, a gpib-error code, a serial-error code, and a
count. The GPIB-MAC returns a <CRxLP> following
each piece of the response.
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or
or
stat
to obtain the status of the GPIB-MAC to
n
indicates that the status information will be
stat
after each programming message.