Terminal Display - 3Com 4200G 12-Port Configuration Manual

Terminal Display

Command History
Error Messages
Enter a command, the first several characters of an available keyword which uniquely
identifies the keyword, and press <Tab>, to complete the keyword will be
automatically completed.
CLI provides the following display feature:
Display suspending. That is, the displaying of output information can be paused
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when the screen is full and you can then perform the three operations listed in
Table 5 as needed.
Table 5 Displaying-related operations
Operation
Press <Ctrl+C>
Press the space key
Press <Enter>
CLI can store the latest executed commands as history commands so that users can
recall and execute them again. By default, CLI can store 10 history commands for
each user. Table 6lists history command-related operations.
Table 6 Access history commands
Operation Operation
Display history Execute the display
commands history-command command
Recall the previous Press the up-arrow key or
history command <Ctrl+P>
Recall the next history Pressing the down-arrow key or
command <Ctrl+N>
As the Up and Down keys have different meanings in HyperTerminal running on
Windows 9x, these two keys can be used to recall history commands only in terminals
running Windows 3.x or Telnet running in Windows 3.x. You can press <Ctrl+P> or
<Ctrl+N> in Windows 9x to achieve the same purpose.
If you enter and execute the same command successively for multiple times, only the
first command is buffered.
If the command you enter passes the syntax check, it will be successfully executed;
otherwise an error message will appear. Table 7 lists the common error messages.
Table 7 Common error messages
Error message
Unrecognized command
Incomplete command
Too many parameters
Ambiguous command
Wrong parameter found at '^'
position.
Function
Suspend displaying and executing.
Scroll the output information up by one page.
Scroll the output information up by one line.
Description
This command displays valid history
commands.
This operation recalls the previous
history command (if available).
This operation recalls the next
history command (if available).
Description
The command does not exist.
The keyword does not exist.
The parameter type is wrong.
The parameter value is out of range.
The command entered is incomplete.
You have entered too many parameters.
The parameters entered are ambiguous.
The parameter labeled by '^' is unrecognizable.
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