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TOS6200A/6210 GPIB and RS-232C 6-7
6.3 Device Messages
This section describes each device message supported by the tester. An item
enclosed within parentheses beside a device message name is the abbreviation of
that device message.
6.3.1 Register-Related and General-Purpose Messages
The following describes the device messages used to set, clear, or inquire about each
register and general-purpose device messages used to specify of a terminator and
other items.
*CLS
Clears of the status byte register, event status register, device status register, protec-
tion register, fail register, invalid setting register and error register.
For details on each register, see 6.4, "Registers.”
Message
Command message:
*CLS
*ESR?
Returns the value of the event status register, then clears it.
For details on the event status register, see 6.4, "Registers.”
Message
Query message:
*ESR?
Response
Returns the contents of the event status register to *ESR?.
(Example) If Bit 5 of the event status register is set, “
32
” is returned.