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Remote Control Commands and Queries

WM-RCM-E Rev D

ISSUED: February 2005

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STATUS

*IST?

Query

DESCRIPTION

The *IST? (Individual STatus) query reads the current state of the
IEEE 488.1-defined “ist” local message. The “ist” individual status

message is the status bit sent during a parallel poll operation.

QUERY SYNTAX

*IST?

RESPONSE FORMAT

*IST

: = 0 or 1

EXAMPLE (GPIB)

The following instruction causes the contents of the IST bit to be

read:

CMD$=“*IST?”: CALL IBWRT(SCOPE%,CMD$):

CALL IBRD(SCOPE%,RSP$): PRINT RSP$

Response

message

*IST

0

RELATED COMMANDS

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