
A
<PROGRAM MESSAGE UNIT>
is any of the commands in the REMOTE COMMANDS section.
Responses from the instrument to the controller are sent as
<RESPONSE MESSAGES>
. A
<RESPONSE MESSAGE>
consists of one
<RESPONSE MESSAGE UNIT>
followed by a
<RESPONSE
MESSAGE TERMINATOR>
.
A
<RESPONSE MESSAGE TERMINATOR>
is the new line character with the END message NL^END.
Each query produces a specific
<RESPONSE MESSAGE>
which is listed along with the command in
the REMOTE COMMANDS section.
<WHITE SPACE>
is ignored except in command identifiers. e.g. `*C LS' is not equivalent to `*CLS'.
<WHITE SPACE>
is defined as character codes 00H to 20H inclusive with the exception of the NL
character (0AH).
The high bit of all characters is ignored.
The commands are case insensitive.
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