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22 Programmer’s Guide
3 Status Registers
What are Status Register SCPI Commands
Most monitoring of the instrument conditions is done at the highest
level using the IEEE common commands indicated below. Complete
command descriptions are available in the IEEE commands section at
the beginning of the language reference. Individual status registers can
be set and queried using the commands in the STATus subsystem of the
language reference.
• *CLS (clear status) clears the status byte by emptying the error queue
and clearing all the event registers.
• *ESE, *ESE? (event status enable) sets and queries the bits in the
enable register part of the standard event status register.
• *ESR? (event status register) queries and clears the event register part
of the standard event status register.
• *SRE,*SRE? (service request enable) sets and queries the value of the
service request enable register.
• *STB? (status byte) queries the value of the status byte register
without erasing its contents.