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Commands by Subsystem 5
Agilent InfiniiVision 5000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Guide 419
:SYSTem Commands
Control basic system functions of the oscilloscope. See "Introduction to
:SYSTem Commands" on page 419.
Introduction to
:SYSTem
Commands
SYSTem subsystem commands enable writing messages to the display,
setting and reading both the time and the date, querying for errors, and
saving and recalling setups.
Table 67 :SYSTem Commands Summary
Command Query Options and Query Returns
:SYSTem:DATE <date>
(see page 420)
:SYSTem:DATE? (see
page 420)
<date> ::= <year>,<month>,<day>
<year> ::= 4-digit year in NR1
format
<month> ::= {1,..,12 | JANuary |
FEBruary | MARch | APRil | MAY |
JUNe | JULy | AUGust | SEPtember
| OCTober | NOVember | DECember}
<day> ::= {1,..31}
:SYSTem:DSP <string>
(see page 421)
n/a <string> ::= up to 254 characters
as a quoted ASCII string
n/a :SYSTem:ERRor? (see
page 422)
<error> ::= an integer error code
<error string> ::= quoted ASCII
string.
See Error Messages (see
page 707).
:SYSTem:LOCK <value>
(see page 423)
:SYSTem:LOCK? (see
page 423)
<value> ::= {{1 | ON} | {0 |
OFF}}
:SYSTem:PRECision
<value> (see
page 424)
:SYSTem:PRECision?
(see page 424)
<value> ::= {{1 | ON} | {0 |
OFF}}
:SYSTem:PROTection:LO
CK <value> (see
page 425)
:SYSTem:PROTection:LO
CK? (see page 425)
<value> ::= {{1 | ON} | {0 |
OFF}}
:SYSTem:SETup
<setup_data> (see
page 426)
:SYSTem:SETup? (see
page 426)
<setup_data> ::= data in IEEE
488.2 # format.
:SYSTem:TIME <time>
(see page 428)
:SYSTem:TIME? (see
page 428)
<time> ::= hours,minutes,seconds
in NR1 format