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Control line, Disarm – Measurement Computing Personal488 rev.3.0 For DOS & Windows 3.Xi User Manual

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III. COMMAND REFERENCES - 15. Command References

15A. Driver488/DRV Commands

Personal488 User’s Manual, Rev. 3.0

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CONTROL LINE

SYNTAX

CONTROL LINE

RESPONSE

Bit-mapped number from 0 to 255 representing the state of the

control lines.

MODE

Any

BUS STATES

None

SEE ALSO

TIME OUT

EXAMPLE

PRINT#1,”CONTROL LINE”
INPUT#2,”CL”

The

CONTROL LINE

command may be used on either IEEE 488 devices or Serial devices. If the

device specified is an IEEE 488 device, this command returns the status of the IEEE 488 bus control
lines as an 8-bit unsigned value (bits 2 and 1 are reserved for future use), as shown below:

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

EOI

SRQ

NRFD

NDAC

DAV

ATN

0

0

If the device refers to a Serial device, this command returns the status of the Serial port control lines as
an 8-bit unsigned value (bits 8 and 7 are reserved for future use), as shown below:

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

0

DSR

RI

DCD

CTS

DTR

RTS

A fuller description of the above bus line abbreviations are provided below:

DISARM

SYNTAX

DISARM[interrupt[,interrupt…]]

interrupt

is one of the following events:

SRQ

,

Peripheral

,

Controller

,

Trigger

,

Clear

,

Talk

,

Listen

,

Idle

,

Bytein

,

Byteout

, or

Change

.

RESPONSE

None

MODE

Any

BUS STATES

None

SEE ALSO

ARM, LIGHT PEN; OnEvent (Sub-Chapter 15B)

EXAMPLES

PRINT#1,”DISARM”

Disable all interrupts

PRINT#1,”DISARM SRQ”

Do not respond to SRQ

The

DISARM

command prevents Driver488 from setting the light pen status or invoking an event handle

and interrupting the computer system, even when the specified conditions occur. The user’s program

Bus State

Bus Lines

Data Transfer (DIO) Lines

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

IEEE 488 Interface

ATN

Attention (&H04)

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

EOI

End-Or-Identify (&H80)

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

SRQ

Service Request (&H40)

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

DAV

Data Valid (&H08)

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

NDAC

Not Data Accepted (&H10)

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

NRFD

Not Ready For Data (&H20)

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

Serial Interface

DTR

Data Terminal Ready (&H02)

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

RI

Ring Indicator (&H10)

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

RTS

Request To Send (&H01)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

CTS

Clear To Send (&H04)

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

DCD

Data Carrier Detect (&H08)

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

DSR

Data Set Ready (&H20)

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0