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Introduction to Programming 3
Agilent Infiniium 90000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Reference 57
Program Header Options
You can send program headers using any combination of uppercase or
lowercaseASCII characters. Oscilloscope responses, however, are always
returned in uppercase.
You may send program command and query headers in either long form
(complete spelling), short form (abbreviated spelling), or any combination
of long form and short form. For example:
":TIMebase:DELay 1E-6" is the long form.
":TIM:DEL 1E- 6" is the short form.
The command descriptions in this reference show upper and lowercase
characters. For example, ":AUToscale" indicates that the entire command
name is ":AUTOSCALE". The short form, ":AUT", is also accepted by the
oscilloscope.
The rules for the short form syntax are described in Chapter 8,
“Programming Conventions,” starting on page 129.
NOTE
Using Long Form or Short Form
Programs written in long form are easily read and are almost self-documenting. The short
form syntax conserves the amount of computer memory needed for program storage and
reduces I/O activity.