Agilent Technologies X Series Programmer's Manual page 37

Introduction to Programming X-Series Applications
STATus Subsystem (Remote Only Commands)
1. Set INITiate:CONTinuous off.
2. Set/enable the status registers.
3. Restart the measurement (send INIT).
Status Register System
The hardware status registers are combined to form the instrument status system.
Specific status bits are assigned to monitor various aspects of the instrument operation
and status. See the diagram of the status system above for information about the bit
assignments and status register interconnections.
The Status Byte Register
The RQS bit is read and reset by a serial poll. The same bit position (MSS) is read,
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