Fluke ScopeMeter 190 Series, Programming Reference Manual

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** Responses received from the ScopeMeter **
After each command sent to the ScopeMeter there
is an automatic response from it, indicated as <acknowledge>
(which you MUST input), to let the computer know whether or
not the received command has been successfully executed.
Refer to the ’Acknowledge’ section below.
There are several commands that ask the ScopeMeter
for response data. Such commands are called Queries.
Example:
ID This is the IDentification query, which asks for
the model number and the software version of the
ScopeMeter.
When the ScopeMeter has received a query, it sends
the <acknowledge> reply as it does after any command, but
now it is followed by the queried response data.
The format of the response data depends upon which query is
sent. When a response consists of different response data
portions, these are separated with commas (ASCII code 44).
Also refer to the section ’Data Separators’.
All response data, <acknowledge> as well as following
(queried) response data are terminated with the carriage
return code (<cr> = ASCII 13). Also refer to the section
’Command and Response Terminators’.