V
Page
VAR
Set Variable Value
166
VAR?
Get Variable Values
166
W
Page
WAC
Wait For Condition
167
8.6.9
Parameters
0x72
Ignore Macro Error?
Ignore macro error?
0 Stop macro on error (default)
1 Ignore error
8.7
Working with GCS Commands
8.7.1
GCS Command Syntax
Notation
The following notation is used to define the GCS syntax and to describe the commands:
<…>
Angle brackets indicate an argument of a command, can be an element identifi-
er or a command-specific parameter.
[…]
Square brackets indicate an optional entry
{…}
Braces indicate repeated specifications, i.e., it is possible to access more than
one element (e.g., several axes) in one command line.
␊
Line Feed (ASCII character 10), default termination character (character at the
end of a command line)
␣
Space (ASCII character 32), empty space
⇥
Horizontal tab (ASCII character 9)
#…
Single-character command, "
…
" indicates the ASCII character in decimal nota-
tion, e.g.,
#7
for ASCII character
␇
.
Syntax
A GCS command consists of three letters, e.g.,
CMD
, or three letters and a question mark,
e.g.,
CMD?
.
Exceptions:
■
Single-character commands consist of only one ASCII character. In this manual, the ASCII
character is written as combination of # and the character code in decimal format, e.g., as
#24
.
■
*IDN?
(for GPIB compatibility).
The command mnemonic is not case sensitive. The command mnemonic and all arguments
(e.g., axis and channel identifiers, parameters etc.) must be separated from each other by a
space (
␣
). The command line ends with the termination character (
␊
).
■
CMD[{{␣}<Argument>}]␊
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