50g

Good Morning Don. Yes the problem is with placing "*IDN?" on level 1
of the stack. No problems with xmit.
Regards
Matthew

--- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, Don Hart <ddhart1@...> wrote:
>
> Maybe I don't understand the nature of your problem.
> Are you getting the error when you press the "xmit"
> key? Or are you getting the error when you try to put
> "*IDN?" on level 1 of the stack?
> 
> --- ntesla66 <ntesla66@...> wrote:
> 
> > No go Don. It gives me the "too few arguments" error
> > or just multiple
> > quotes. Trying to get the darned thing to send
> > strings of ASCII
> > characters to control my HP35670a analyzer.
> > Interface is serial
> > through a national instruments GBIP-232CV-A
> > converter and I have
> > Eric's rs-232 cable..which works great by the way.
> > Regards
> > Matthew
> > 
> > --- In 50g@yahoogroups.com, Don Hart <ddhart1@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Press the alpha shift key first, then the *
> > > 
> > > --- ntesla66 <ntesla66@> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Howdy All. Yep I set hyperterminal to "8N1 19k
> > baud
> > > > Xon/off" and the
> > > > program works as advertised. You have to be sure
> > and
> > > > set these
> > > > parameters in the "APPS" i/o functions transfer
> > > > section and leave it
> > > > set to Kermit. 
> > > > I have a newbie question (the 50g is my first HP
> > > > calc ever) How do I
> > > > pass characters that the calc recognizes as
> > > > operators with out a
> > > > syntax error? Characters such as +*? . Say I
> > wanted
> > > > to transmit the
> > > > string "*IDN?" This would cause a GPIB device to
> > > > return its identity.
> > > > Regards
> > > > Matthew
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >      
> >
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