Commands by Subsystem 5
Agilent InfiniiVision 5000 Series Oscilloscopes Programmer's Guide 391
:SYSTem Commands
Control basic system functions of the oscilloscope. See "Introduction to
:SYSTem Commands" on page 391.
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 58 :SYSTem Commands Summary
Command Query Options and Query Returns
:SYSTem:DATE <date>
(see page 392)
:SYSTem:DATE? (see
page 392)
<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 393)
n/a <string> ::= up to 254 characters
as a quoted ASCII string
n/a :SYSTem:ERRor? (see
page 394)
<error> ::= an integer error code
<error string> ::= quoted ASCII
string.
See Error Messages (see
page 615).
:SYSTem:LOCK <value>
(see page 395)
:SYSTem:LOCK? (see
page 395)
<value> ::= {{1 | ON} | {0 |
OFF}}
:SYSTem:PROTection:LO
CK <value> (see
page 396)
:SYSTem:PROTection:LO
CK? (see page 396)
<value> ::= {{1 | ON} | {0 |
OFF}}
:SYSTem:SETup
<setup_data> (see
page 397)
:SYSTem:SETup? (see
page 397)
<setup_data> ::= data in IEEE
488.2 # format.
:SYSTem:TIME <time>
(see page 399)
:SYSTem:TIME? (see
page 399)
<time> ::= hours,minutes,seconds
in NR1 format