multiple termination characters with VISA

[john bayldon]

I am controllinga serial device that uses the last charachter of the reply string as a status indicator, this means that there are several possible termination characters. Is there any way for VISA to deal with this (other than just letting it time out and seeing what the last characterread was?)

[Ben]

1) Disable the term character using VISA config serail port.

2a) If fixed length, then specify read correct # of bytes/

2b) If packets are not fixed length, then develop state machine read function that reads one byte at a time and acts accordingly.

Ben

[john bayldon]

It seems very inelegant writing new code for something that VISA almost does already. But your solution is better than my current method thanks.

John

[Ben]

VISA only supports one term character "pattern".

It also only supports one byte term characters.

Ben