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Chapter 5, Advanced Operations
Status Reporting
Operation Status Register Group 
The Operation Status Register Group contains information about the state of the 
measurement systems in the Test Set. This status group is accessed using the 
STATus commands. The Operation Status Register Group uses 16-bit registers 
and includes a Condition Register, Transition Filters, an Event Register, an Enable 
Register, and a Summary Message. Refer to th
 for a discussion of status register operation
 shows 
the structure and STATus commands for the Operation Status Register Group. 
Figure 8
 Operation Status Register Group
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:STATus: OPERation: ENABle
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<integer>
:STATus: OPERation: EVENt ?
:STATus: OPERation
:PTRansition
:NTRansition
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<integer>
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<integer>
:STATus: OPERation: CONDition ?
Summary
Message
Bit
Condition
Register
Transition
Filter Registers
Event
Register
Enable
Register
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(to bit 7 of Status
  Byte Register)
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