Newport FPM-8220, User Manual

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GPIB and USB use flexible representation for numeric parameters: integer, floating point, or
engineering/scientific notation. There are no default values for omitted parameters.
Some device-dependent commands are compound commands, in which the first mnemonic opens a
path to a set of commands relating to that path. The second mnemonic then defines the actual
command.
Table 3.6 shows some examples of invalid syntax command strings that will produce errors:
Table 3.6 – Invalid Syntax Command Strings
COMMAND COMMENT
SYSTEM ERROR?
Missing colon;
RANGE:AUTO 1 *IDN?
Missing semicolon
ADDRESS:GPIB ?
Space not allowed before question mark.
WAVE1234;*IDN?
Space missing between WAVE command and the parameter
value 1234.