HP 54501A Programming Reference Manual page 36

Definite-Length
Definite-length block
response data allows any type of
device-dependent
BIOCk
Response
data to be transmitted over the system interface
as a
series of
8-bit binary
Data
^ata
^y^-
Th^
ls
particularly
useful
for sending large quantities of data
or 8-bit extended
ASCII
codes.
The syntax is
a
pound sign
(#)
followed
by
a
non-zero digit
representing the number
of digits
in the decimal
integer.
After the non-zero
digit
is the decimal integer that
states
the
number of 8-bit data
bytes being
sent.
This is
followed
by
the actual data.
For
example, for transmitting 80 bytes of data,
the syntax
would be:
NUMBER OF DIGITS
THAT FOLLOW
ACTUAL DATA
#800000080<eighty
bytes of dota><terminator>
NUMBER OF BYTES
TO BE TRANSMITTED i6500B03
The
"8"
states
the number of
digits that follow, and "00000080" states the
number of bytes to be
transmitted.
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