Remote Control Basics
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3. Poll the operation complete state periodically (by means of a timer) using the
sequence: *OPC; *ESR?
A return value (LSB) of 1 indicates that the overlapped command has finished.
6.5 Status Reporting System
The status reporting system stores all information on the current operating state of the
instrument, and on errors which have occurred. This information is stored in the status
registers and in the error queue.
You can query both with the commands of the
6.5.1 Hierarchy of the Status Registers
shows the hierarchical structure of information in the status registers
(ascending from left to right).
Status Reporting System