[time-nuts] Frequency Counter Choice

[Adrian Godwin]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 6:18 PM Rex <rexa at sonic.net> wrote:

>
> Then I sent *PUD?
> and got
> #261 CALIBRATED: 2006-11-07, CALPLS: 4.25 ns, TMP: +22 °C[LF]
> where the [LF] at the end is not literal, it represents the line feed
> char 0x0a.
>
> ...

> There is one odd thing I see though. The last two of #261 is supposed to
> say the string length is 61. But it isn't. I count it as 53 chars. I
> don't know if this matters but the counter gave that number to me. In
> the Programming Manual description page for *PUD, it gives a couple
> examples and the #2nn values shown do have lengths that match their
> string lengths.
>

Could it be that the counter has returned 61 chars but the last few were
binary and the first of those a LF?
But the PC has accepted a string and assumed the LF is it's terminating
character and stopped printing or storing at that point ?