Agilent Technologies N5700 - Manual (Page 63)

SCPI Commands – an Introduction
Series N5700 User’s Guide 63
Response Data Types
Symbol Response Formats
Character Response Data. Permits the return of character
strings.
Arbitrary ASCII Response Data. Permits the return of
undelimited 7-bit ASCII. This data type has an implied message
terminator.
String Response Data. Returns string parameters enclosed in
double quotes.
Device Clear
You can send a Device Clear at any time to abort a SCPI command
that may be hanging up the GPIB interface. Device Clear clears the
input and output buffers of the power supply. The status registers,
error queue, and all configuration states are left unchanged by Device
Clear. Device Clear also prepares the power supply to accept a new
command string. The following statement shows how to send a device
clear over the GPIB interface using Agilent BASIC:
CLEAR 705 IEEE-488 Device Clear
The following statement shows how to send a device clear over the
GPIB interface using the GPIB command library for C or
QuickBASIC:
IOCLEAR (705)