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Remote Control Commands and Queries

WM-RCM-E Rev D

ISSUED: February 2005

167

DISPLAY

MESSAGE, MSG

Command/Query

DESCRIPTION

The MESSAGE command displays a string of characters in the
message field at the bottom of the instrument screen.

COMMAND SYNTAX

MeSsaGe ‘’ or MSG “

:= a string of up to 49 characters. Longer strings will be

truncated to 49 characters, but the original string will be retained and
returned by the MSG? Query.

QUERY SYNTAX

MeSsaGe?

RESPONSE FORMAT

MeSsaGe “

EXAMPLE (GPIB)

The following causes the message Touch Probe 2 to Test
Point 7

to appear in the message field.

CMD$=”MSG ‘Touch Probe 2 to Test Point 7’”:
CALL IBWRT(SCOPE%, CMD$)