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4.3 Message Format
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4.3.1 Program Message
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4.3.2 Response Messages
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4.3 Message Format
The commands for the 3532-50/3522-50 are as far as possible mnemonic.
Furthermore, all commands have a long form, and an abbreviated short form.
The program message is made up from header and data portions
Example
Command message to set frequency to 1 kHz
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FREQUENCY 1000
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Header portion
2
Space separating header portion and data portion.
3
Data portion (ASCII-format text or numeric values.
Some messages have no data portions...query messages, etc.)
A command header can be abbreviated. The whole command form is
referred to as the "long form" and the abbreviated form as the "short form."
In this manual, the short form is written in upper case letters, and then this
is continued in lower case letters so as to constitute the long form. Either of
these forms will be accepted during operation, but intermediate forms will
not be accepted. Further, during operation both lower case letters and upper
case letters will be accepted without distinction.
For "FREQUENCY", either "FREQuency" (the long form) or "FREQ" (the
short form) will be accepted. However, any one of "FREQU", or "FRE" is
wrong and will generate an error.
It represents the response message for query messages from the 3532-
50/3522-50.
Response messages generated by the 3532-50/3522-50 are in long form and
in upper case letters.
Example
FREQUENCY 1.000E+03
(Current frequency is 1 kHz.)
If an error occurs when the query message is received, the query does not
produce response message.
