GPIB Serial Poll from VISA session

[McV]

Having standardised on the VISA comms VIs, I now need to execute a GPIB Serial Poll - I have a mixture of older (i.e. non 488.2) instruments and modern stuff, so I can't use the '*STB?' status byte based VI.

If I drop down to the older GPIB VIs, The format of the address is almost exactly not the same!

1 - is there a utility to convert the address format so I can (almost seamlessly) use the old VIs?

2 - is there a SPOLL command hidden in the VISA VIs that I haven't found?

3 - do I have to go and do the SPE/SPD low level commands for myself?

[smercurio_fc]

The "older" GPIB VIs are 488.2, so I don't know to which older VIs you're referring to that would be non-488.2. The stock GPIB VIs used a string that was the GPIB address. This can be acquired from a VISA resource using properties: