Command Abbreviation. Agilent Technologies 8712ES, 8714ET, 8714ES, 8712ET

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Introduction to SCPI

Command Abbreviation

Command Abbreviation

Each command mnemonic has a long form and a short form. The short forms of the mnemonics allow you to send abbreviated commands. Only the exact short form or the exact long form is accepted.

The short form mnemonics are created according to the following rules:

• If the long form mnemonic has four characters or less, the short form is the same as the long form. For example, DATA remains DATA .

• If the long form mnemonic has more than four characters and the fourth character is a consonant, the short form consists of the first four characters of the long form. For example, CALCULATE becomes

CALC .

• If the long form mnemonic has more than four characters and the fourth character is a vowel, the short form consists of the first three characters of the long form. For example, LIMIT becomes LIM .

The short form of a particular mnemonic is indicated by the use of

UPPER-CASE characters in this manual.

SCPI is not case sensitive so any mix of upper and lower-case lettering can be used when sending commands to the analyzer.

If the rules listed in this section are applied to the last program message in the preceding section, the statement:

OUTPUT 716;"CALCULATE:MARKER:STATE ON;MODE

RELATIVE;MAXIMUM;FUNCTION:TRACKING ON" becomes:

OUTPUT 716;"CALC:MARK:STAT ON;MODE REL;MAX;FUNC:TRAC ON"

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