the problem is trying to guess the syntax....I was thinking of
somethings
like.....
Set Style ##.### // or may be just Style ##.### try this
"##.###" as
well.
Print using style, a,b,c
It may be possible to define a number of styles, then it might be......
style 1; ##.###
style 2; #####.#
print using 1; a, b:
print using 2; c
Once again try the ### in inverted commas.
I seem to recollect a similar syntax somewhere but I dont recognise the
reserved word STYLE either you can obviously play games with the
commas,
colons and semi-colons to see what works. the print statements you have
discovered will give a lead to that. Wrong synatx on an "immediate"
command
(at the prompt) should show an error straight away. If you can find one
manual for any programmable instrument from S-D you will probably
find an
example that will show most of the command syntax. Think of the
parsing and
what chars are needed as delimiters to make this easy for the
processor.
I cant help there I have no S-D equipment. but there must be some
around
with manuals :-))
Alan G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "EB4APL"<eb4...@cembreros.jazztel.es>
To:<time-nuts@febo.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT Systron-Donner Basic
Alan,
It doesn't work, neither (####.#), "#####.#" and a lot of other
combinations that I already tried.
I was able to get the other commands syntax even the non "standard
basic" ones even with several parameters, but this one is very
resilient
to all my efforts after diving in old Basic, Fortran, Algol, etc.
manuals but never found a STYLE statement. I always get ILLEGAL
STYLE error and no other cues.
Thank you anyway, I appreciate all efforts.
Ignacio EB4APL
El 20/03/2011 18:12, Alan Melia wrote:
Hi Ignacio try the "print like" format with ######.## to define
decimal
places etc
Alan G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "EB4APL"<eb4...@cembreros.jazztel.es>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
<time-nuts@febo.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 4:41 PM
Subject: [time-nuts] OT Systron-Donner Basic
This is clearly OT, but maybe somebody in this list can give me some
help.
Recently I bought an old GPIB controller, a Systron-Donner Busser II
model 3522. As my daughter said it looks like technology coming from
"Lost", but I want it to learn how to do some basic control of my GPIB
instruments before immersing in a more logical solution using a NI
card
and a PC.
For starting, I made simple programs to record OCXO's drift and aging
against my Rb and for studying the charge and discharge of batteries.
This device is a small 6802 based computer that runs a Basic dialect
(Systron-Donner Basic v 2.a) and while the unit came without any
documentation I was able to reverse engineer its command set and other
information.
There is only a command that resist all my efforts so far, the command
STYLE that seems to be a kind of format facility for the PRINT
command.
Anybody was exposed in the past to this technology or remember
anything
about a Basic command named STYLE?
I canĀ“t find the right syntax for this command.
Thanks in advance.
Ignacio, EB4APL
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