Agilent Technologies 8614 B Series User Manual page 196

Status Listings
SCPI-Defined Errors
Table 5-1. Command Errors (4 of 4)
Error Number Error Description [description/explanation/examples]
–168 desc = "Block data not allowed"
help = ""
[A legal block data element was encountered but was not allowed by the device
at this point in parsing.]
–170 desc = "Expression error"
help = ""
[This error, as well as errors –171 through –179, are generated when parsing an
expression data element. This particular error message should be used if the
device cannot detect a more specific error.]
–171 desc = "Invalid expression"
help = ""
[The expression data element was invalid (see IEEE 488.2, 7.7.7.2); for example,
unmatched parentheses or an illegal character.]
–178 desc = "Expression data not allowed"
help = ""
[A legal expression data was encountered but was not allowed by the device at
this point in parsing.]
–181 desc = "Invalid outside macro definition"
help = ""
[Indicates that a macro parameter placeholder ($<number) was encountered
outside of a macro definition.]
–183 desc = "Invalid inside macro definition"
help = ""
Indicates that the program message unit sequence, sent with a *DDT or *DMC
command, is syntactically invalid (see IEEE 488.2, 10.7.6.3).]
Execution errors
An <error/event number> in the range [–299, –200] indicates that an error has been detected
by the instrument's execution control block. The occurrence of any error in this class shall cause
the execution error bit (bit 4) in the event status register (IEEE 488.2, section 11.5.1) to be set.
One of the following events has occurred:
• A <PROGRAM DATA> element following a header was evaluated by the device as outside of its
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