Manual

Remote Control Commands and Queries
WM-RCM-E Rev D ISSUED: February 2005 165
STATUS
*IST?
Query
DESCRIPTION
The *IST? (Individual STatus) query reads the current state of the
IEEE 488.1-defined “ist” local message. The “ist” individual status
message is the status bit sent during a parallel poll operation.
QUERY SYNTAX
*IST?
RESPONSE FORMAT
*IST <value>
<value> : = 0 or 1
EXAMPLE (GPIB) The following instruction causes the contents of the IST bit to be
read:
CMD$=“*IST?”: CALL IBWRT(SCOPE%,CMD$):
CALL IBRD(SCOPE%,RSP$): PRINT RSP$
Response message
*IST 0
RELATED COMMANDS
*PRE