Fluke 6060B Frequency, Amplitude GPIB commands HELP!

fluke 6060B Frequency, Amplitude GPIB commands HELP! The very old and useless scanned copy of the manual showed the GPIB commands: FR230MZ but it NEVER worked, same for amplitude, anyone can send the WORKING vi that can set any number with any significant digits for frequency and amplitude, GREATLY appreciated!

Please don't shout. It doesn't help at all to do that.
When you use the driver, what VI are you using? Do you get any kind of error code back from the VI? What is it if you do? When you send your frequency command, is this with the driver of in MAX? When the frequency command does not execute, have you done an errory query of the instrument? There is a funciton in the driver for that. It would be extremely helpful to know if the instrument replies back with some error message or code. I don't know if it's related to the problem you are seeing but the driver I downloaded needs to be modified to work with newer versions of VISA. The initialize function has an 'Old' VISA Open. This should be replaced with the normal VISA Open on the palette. I modified this and the Getting Started function to be correct and attached them.
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FL6060X Initialize.vi ‏79 KB
FL6060A Getting Started.vi ‏57 KB

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