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TDS200/1000/2000 Series Oscilloscope Programmer Manual

Concatenating Commands

You can concatenate any combination of set commands and queries

using a semicolon (;). The oscilloscope executes concatenated

commands in the order received. When concatenating commands

and queries you must follow these rules:

H Completely different headers must be separated by both a

semicolon and by the beginning colon on all commands but the

first. For example, the commands TRIGger:MODe NORMal and

ACQuire:NUMAVg 16 can be concatenated into a single

command:

TRIGger:MODe NORMal;:ACQuire:NUMAVg 16

H If concatenated commands have headers that differ by only the

last mnemonic, you can abbreviate the second command and

eliminate the beginning colon. For example, the commands

ACQuire:MODe AVErage and ACQuire:NUMAVg 16 could be

concatenated into a single command:

ACQuire:MODe AVErage; NUMAVg 16

The longer version works equally well:

ACQuire:MODe AVErage;:ACQuire:NUMAVg 16

H Never precede a star (*) command with a colon:

ACQuire:MODe AVErage;*TRG

The oscilloscope processes commands that follow the star

command as if the star command was not there, so:

ACQuire:MODe AVErage;*TRG;NUMAVg 16

sets the acquisition mode to average and sets acquisition

averaging to 16. The *TRG command is ignored.

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