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3 Status Registers
What are Status Register SCPI Commands
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Most monitoring of the instrument conditions is done at the
highest level using the IEEE common commands indicated
below. Complete command descriptions are available in the
IEEE commands section at the beginning of the language
reference. Individual status registers can be set and queried
using the commands in the STATus subsystem of the
language reference.
• *CLS (clear status) clears the status byte by emptying the
error queue and clearing all the event registers.
• *ESE, *ESE? (event status enable) sets and queries the bits
in the enable register part of the standard event status
register.
• *ESR? (event status register) queries and clears the event
register part of the standard event status register.
• *SRE,*SRE? (service request enable) sets and queries the
value of the service request enable register.
• *STB? (status byte) queries the value of the status byte
register without erasing its contents.
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