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WaveAce Remote Control

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Appendix: Waveform Template

This section contains the Waveform Template describing the contents of the Waveform

Descriptor produced by WF? DESC and WF? ALL queries. After the template, explanations detail

the construction of floating point numbers from bytes in the descriptor, followed by program

fragments showing a method of performing calculations.

Wave Descriptor Block WAVEDESC; Explanation

< 0> DESCRIPTOR_NAME: string ; the first 8 chars are always WAVEDESC

;

< 16> TEMPLATE_NAME: string

;

< 32> COMM_TYPE: enum ; chosen by remote command COMM_FORMAT

_0 byte

_1 word

endenum

;

< 34> COMM_ORDER: enum

_0 HIFIRST

_1 LOFIRST

endenum

;

; The following variables of this basic wave descriptor block specify

; the block lengths of all blocks of which the entire waveform (as it

; currently being read) is composed. If a block length is zero, this

; block is (currently) not present.

;

; Blocks and arrays that are present will be found in the same order

; as their descriptions below.

;

;BLOCKS :

;

< 36> WAVE_DESCRIPTOR: long ; length in bytes of block WAVEDESC

< 40> USER_TEXT: long ; length in bytes of block USERTEXT

< 44> RES_DESC1: long ;