5½ Digit Multimeter Reference Manual Section 5:
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SYSTem subsystem
The SYSTem subsystem contains miscellaneous commands that are summarized in SYSTem
subsystem summary (on page 5-25).
:BEEPer <b>
This command turns the beeper on or off for limit tests, diode tests, and reading hold.
Parameters
<b> description
Query
command description
Query the state of the beeper. Returns 0 (off) or 1 (on).
Example
:DATA:POINts?
Query the number of readings stored in the instrument’s internal memory.
Parameters
None.
Query
command description
Query the number of readings stored in the multimeter’s internal memory.
SYSTem:ERRor?
Query the multimeter’s error queue. Up to 20 errors can be stored in the queue. Errors are retrieved in first-in-first-
out (FIFO) order. Each error string may contain up to 80 characters.
Query
This query command returns an error code. For example:
-102 Syntax error
Refer to Error codes (on page 6-3
) for information about the error codes.