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HP-IB Messages
Instrument Specic Errors
These are error messages with positive error numbers . They indicate errors such
as incompatible modes .
200 Not Attenuation Mode
This indicates that a command or query was received that cannot be executed
or answered in P ower Mode (see \[:SOURce]:POW er:A TT enuation:A UTO" in
Chapter 5).
Command Errors
These are error messages in the range -100 to -199. They indicate that a syntax
error has been detected by the parser in a command, such as incorrect data,
incorrect commands , or misspelled or mistyped commands .
A command error is signaled by the command error bit (bit 5) in the event
status register .
-100 Command error . This indicates that the parser has found a command
error but cannot be more specic .
-101 Invalid character . The command contains an invalid or unrecognized
character .
-102 Syntax error . The command or data could not be recognized.
-103 Invalid separator . The parser was expecting a separator (for example , a
semicolon (;) between commands) but did not nd one .
-104 Data type error . The parser was expecting one data type , but found
another (for example , was expecting a string, but received numeric data).
-105 GET not allowed. A Group Execute Trigger was received within a
program message (see IEEE 488.2, 7.7)
-108 P arameter not allowed. More parameters were received for a command
than were expected.
Error Messages F-3