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Reading Instrument
Errors
When debugging a program, y ou may w an t to kno w if an instrumen t
error has o ccurred. Some instrumen ts can display error messages on
their fron t panels. If y our instrumen t cannot do this, y ou can put the
follo wing co de segmen t in y our program to read and display error
messages.
10 !
20 ! The rest of your
30 ! variable declarations
40 !
50 DIM Err_msg$[75]
60 INTEGER Err_num
70 !
80 ! Part of your program
90 ! that generates errors
100 !
110 !
200 REPEAT
210 OUTPUT @Box;":SYST:ERR?"
220 ! Query instrument error
230 ENTER @Box;Err_num,Err_msg$
240 ! Read error #, message
250 PRINT Err_num,Err_msg$
260 ! Print error message
270 UNTIL Err_num = 0
280 ! Repeat until no errors
290 !
300 ! The rest of your program
310 !
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