KEPCO MST 488 Programmer - Manual (Page 35)

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Each keyword has a long form and a short form. For the long form the word is spelled out com-
pletely (e.g. STATUS, OUTPUT, VOLTAGE, and TRIGGER are long form keywords). For the
short form only the first three or four letters of the long form are used (e.g., STAT, VOLT, OUTP,
and TRIG). The rules governing short form keywords are presented in Table 3-5.
You must use the rules described in Table 3-5 when using keywords. Using an arbitrary short
form such as ENABL for ENAB (ENABLE) or IMME for IMM (IMMEDIATE) will result in an error.
Regardless of which form chosen, you must include all the letters required by that form.
To identify the short form and long form in this manual, keywords are written in upper case let-
ters to represent the short form, followed by lower case letters indicating the long form (e.g.,
IMMediate, EVENt, and OUTPut). The parser, however, is not sensitive to case (e.g., outp,
OutP, OUTPUt, ouTPut, or OUTp are all valid).
FIGURE 3-3. MESSAGE STRUCTURE
TABLE 3-5. RULES GOVERNING SHORTFORM KEYWORDS
IF NUMBER OF LETTERS IN
LONGFORM KEYWORD IS:
AND FOURTH LETTER
IS A VOWEL?
THEN SHORT FORM
CONSISTS OF:
EXAMPLES
4 OR FEWER (DOES NOT MATTER) ALL LONG FORM LETTERS MODE
5 OR MORE
NO
THE FIRST FOUR
LONG FORM LETTERS
MEASure, OUTPut, EVENt
YES
THE FIRST THREE
LONG FORM LETTERS
LEVel, IMMediate, ERRor
CURR:LEV 3.5;:OUTP ON;:CURR?
MESSAGE TERMINATOR
KEYWORD
QUERY INDICATOR
ROOT SPECIFIER
MESSAGE UNIT SEPARATOR
DATA
KEYWORD
KEYWORD
KEYWORD SEPARATOR
KEYWORD
MESSAGE UNIT SEPARATOR
DATA
MESSAGE UNIT
DATA SEPARATOR
DATA SEPARATOR
ROOT SPECIFIER