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Agilent B2900 SCPI Command Reference, Edition 2 4- 63

Subsystem Commands

:PROGram[:SELected]:DEFine

Before executing this command, the program must be selected by the

:PROGram[:SELected]:NAME command with a new program name. Or else, an

error occurs.

Attempting to overwrite an existing program causes an error. Delete the program

first by using the

:PROGram[:SELected]:DELete[:SELected] command.

Syntax :PROGram[:SELected]:DEFine program_code

:PROGram[:SELected]:DEFine?

Parameter program_code Program code. Up to 256 byte per execution. Sum of all

program size in the program memory must be up to 100 KB.

Maximum of 100 programs can be memorized. Parameter data

type is block. Both definite length block and indefinite length

block are available. Program code cannot contain control

characters except for the trailing linefeed.

For the definite length block, program_code must be #nms which consists of the

header #nm and the command string s. For example, #213:OUTP:STAT ON.

• n: Number of digits for m. (ex: 2)

• m: Number of characters (8-bit data bytes) for the command string. (ex: 13)

• s: Command string. (ex: :OUTP:STAT ON (total 13 characters))

For the indefinite length block, program_code must be #0s which consists of the

header #0 and the command string s. For example, #0:OUTP:STAT ON.

In the command string, the following characters have special meaning.

• \n: Command delimiter

• %%: Percent (%) character

• #: Comment header

program_code does not support the following.

• Query commands

• SCPI common commands except for *CLS, *ESE, and *SRE commands

• Program subsystem commands except for :PROG:STAT command

program_code supports variables in the format %h% (h: integer. 1 to 100). It is

replaced with the value set by the

:PROGram:VARiable command before executing

the program.

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