Agilent Technologies ESA Series User's/Programmer's Reference page 186

Programming Fundamentals
Parameters in Commands
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• The first digit in the header (5) represents
how many additional digits/bytes there are
in the header.
• The numbers 12320 indicates 12
thousand, 3 hundred, 20 data bytes follow
the header.
• To determine how may points in the
block, divide 12320 by your selected data
format bytes/point. Divide by 8 for real
64, or 4 for real 32. In this example there
are 1540 points in the block if your
selected data format is real 64.
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