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Commands
Table 4 lists the commands in alphabetical order. In this section the commands are
arranged into the following groups:
Alarm Commands - commands for alarm settings. alarm commands
Measurement Commands - commands for reading measurement data.
Data Commands –commands for setting and reading data information
Measurement Control Commands – commands for the timing and action of the
measurement process.
Channel Commands - commands for selecting channels.
Calibration Commands - commands for calibration settings.
System Commands - commands for general system configuration parameters.
Communication Interface Commands - commands for controlling the interface
configuration (serial and IR ports).
Date and Time Commands - commands for setting the date, time and the date and time
formats.
Password Commands - commands for enabling and disabling the password, for setting
the password, and for checking the password protection state.
Status Commands - commands to report the status and condition of the instrument.
Each section provides the command structure (long and short format), a description of the
command purpose, a command example, an example of what the command returns (as
applicable to query commands), and notes specific to the command. The following apply
to each group of commands:
• Upper case letters designate syntax that is required when issuing the command.
Lower case letters are optional and may be omitted.
• <>indicates a required parameter.
• [] indicates an optional parameter.
• () indicates a group of parameters that must be used together.
• ‘|’ indicates alternate parameter values.
• <str> indicates a string of ASCII characters is required.
• <chn> indicates a channel number is required.
• <num> indicates an integer value is required.
• <bool> indicates a boolean value (0 or 1) is required. The mnemonics OFF and
ON are also accepted for 0 and 1, respectively.
• <unit> indicates a temperature unit (C or F) is required.
• <float> indicates a floating point value is required.
• <pass> indicates a four digit numeric password is required.
• <port> indicates a port number is required.
• <year> indicates a four digit number for the year is required.
• <month> indicates a one or two digit number for the month is required.
• <day> indicates a one or two digit number for the day is required.