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PTB 200

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Digital Barometers

SSD/Operating Manual

24th February 1993

PTB200-O0284-1.1

The basic definition consists of the current and new format:

>FORM
(current output format appears here)
? (type new format here)

The output format consists of the pressure reading area, pressure unit
area, carriage return and line feed, e.g.:

"\PPPP.PP\ \uuuu\\r\n"

where
\PPPP.PP\

pressure reading area

\uuuu\

pressure unit area

\r

carriage return

\n

line feed

An example of changing the output pressure resolution from two to one
decimal (0.01

0.1):

>FORM
"\PPPP.PP\ \uuuu\\r\n"
? \PPPP.P\ \uuuu\\r\n

Example of adding leading spaces:

>FORM
"\PP.PPP\ \uuuu\\r\n"
? \PPPP.PPP\ \uuuu\\r\n

Example of adding text to the output:

>FORM
"\PPPP.PP\ \uuuu\\r\n"
? Barometric pressure = \PPPP.PP\ \uuuu\\r\n

Example of omitting the pressure unit from the output:

>FORM
"\PPPP.PP\ \uuuu\\r\n"
? \PPPP.PP\\r\n