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Figure 3-3 VXI-11 Keyboard Program Panel
Note
Some instruments have multiple instrument personalities.
inst0
is nor-
mally the main instrument and will normally, but not always, respond to
an *IDN? query.
At this point, you can communicate with the linked instrument just like a GPIB
device. The VXI11_kybd default setup appends a linefeed terminator to all
outgoing messages, looks for an EOI or linefeed terminator and automatically
reads the response to a query (any string that includes a question mark). The
*ESR?, *IDN?, and *STB? queries only work with IEEE-488.2 compatible
devices. Figure 3-3 shows the VXI11_kybd panel that has just read the *IDN
response.
To output a message, enter the message in the Device Command window and
press Send. If the message was a query (contains a ‘?’), the VXI11_kybd pro-
gram automatically reads and displays the device response. To read a response
