8          General Programming     
188    M8190A User’s Guide 
8.7.1  :STATus:PRESet 
 
Clears all status group event registers. Presets the status group enables PTR and 
NTR registers as follows:  
ENABle = 0x0000, PTR = 0xffff, NTR = 0x0000 
 
 
 
8.7.2  Status Byte Register 
 
The Status Byte summary register reports conditions from the other status registers. 
Data that is waiting in the instrument’s output buffer is immediately reported on the 
“Message Available” bit (bit 4) for example. Clearing an event register from one of the 
other register groups will clear the corresponding bits in the Status Byte condition 
register. Reading all messages from the output buffer, including any pending queries, 
will clear the “Message Available” bit. To set the enable register mask and generate 
an SRQ (service request), you must write a decimal value to the register using the 
*SRE command. 
 
 
Table 8-2:  Status Byte Register 
One or more error are stored in the Error Queue 
One or more bits are set in the Questionable Data 
Register (bits must be enabled) 
Data is available in the instrument’s output buffer 
One or more bits are set in the Standard Event Register 
One or more bits are set in the Status Byte Register 
One or more bits set in the Operation Data Register (bits 
must be enabled)