Clear instrument buffer
clrdevice(obj)
| A GPIB, VISA-GPIB, VISA-VXI, VISA-GPIB-VXI, VISA-Serial, or VISA-TCPIP object. |
clrdevice(obj) clears the hardware buffer
of the instrument connected to obj.
Before you can clear the hardware buffer, the instrument must be connected to
obj with the fopen function. A connected
object has a Status property value of open.
If you issue clrdevice when obj is
disconnected from the instrument, then an error is returned.
You can clear the software input buffer using the flushinput function. You can
clear the software output buffer using the flushoutput function.
flushinput | flushoutput | fopen | Status