# Endianness of Returned Binary Block Data

SCPI Basics

- Program Message Terminator
- Short or Long Forms
- White Space
- Combining Commands
- Adding Parameters to a Command
- String Arguments
- Numbers
- Infinity Representation
- Queries
- Endianness of Returned Binary Block Data
- NaN (Not A Number)
- Sequential and Overlapped Commands
- SCPI Tree

To specify the byte order of binary data (see Definite-Length Block Response Data) that is returned in response to a query, use the `:SYSTem:BORDer` command.