HP 16500C Programmer's Manual page 114

Introduction
The common commands are defined by the IEEE 488.2 standard.
These commands must be supported by all instruments that comply
with this standard. Refer to figure 9-1 and table 9-1 for the common
commands syntax diagram.
The common commands control some of the basic instrument
functions such as instrument identification and reset, how status is
read and cleared, and how commands and queries are received and
processed by the instrument. The common commands are:
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*CLS
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*ESE
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*ESR
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*IDN
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*IST
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*OPC
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*OPT
Common commands can be received and processed by the HP 16500C
Logic Analysis System, whether they are sent over the bus as separate
program messages or within other program messages. If an
instrument subsystem has been selected and a common command is
received by the instrument, the system will remain in the selected
subsystem.
If the program message in this example is received by the system, it
Example
will initialize the disk and store the file and clear the status
information. This is not the case if some other type of command is
received within the program message.
":MMEMORY:INITIALIZE;*CLS; STORE 'FILE
9–2
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*PRE
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*RST
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*SRE
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*STB
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*TRG
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*TST
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*WAI
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