Commands Listed in Alphabetical Order
Related Commands
ALIas:STATE
Arguments
OFF turns Alias expansion off. If a defined alias is sent w hen ALIas:STATE is off,
a command error (102) will be generated.
ON turns Alias expansion on. When a defined alias is received, the specified
command sequence is substituted for the alias and executed.
NR1=0 disables Alias mode; any other value enables Alias mode.
Examples
ALIAS ON turns the alias feature on. When a defined alias is received, the specifi ed
command sequence is substituted
for the alias and execute d.
ALIAS? might return :ALIAS:STATE 1, indicating that the alias feature is on.
ALIas:CATalog? (Query Only)
This query-only command returns a list of the currently defined alias labels,
separated by commas. If no aliases are defined, the query returns the string “”.
Group
Alias
Syntax
ALIas:CATalog?
Examples
ALIAS:CATALOG? might return the string :ALIAS:CATALOG
"SETUP1","TESTMENU1","DEFA ULT"
showing that there are three aliases
named SETUP1, TESTMENU1, and DEFAULT.
ALIas:DEFine
This command assigns a sequence of program messages to an alias label. These
messages are then substituted for the alias whenever it is received as a command
or query, provided that ALIas:STATE has been turned on. The query form of this
command returns the definitions of a selected alias.
NOTE. Attempting to give two aliases the same name causes an error. To give a
new alias the name of an existing alias, the existing alias must fi rst be deleted.
Group
Alias
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