Nortel North American DMS-100 Instruction Manual page 606

TOPS MPX Token Ring LAN troubleshooting
Ring Diagnostic Function Keys (Sheet 1 of 2)
Key
F1
Help
Key
F2
Print
F3
End
F4
Retry
Print
F5
Dump
DMS-100 Family NA100 Trouble Locating and Clearing Procedures Volume 2 of 2 LET0015 and up
Trouble locating and clearing procedures (continued)
Description
To view Help, press F1.
The Help panels provide a description of the function keys. The Help
panels display the address of the adapter that runs the ring
Diagnostic and the code level of the adapter. The Help panel also
displays the Adapter Support Interface and the Ring Diagnostic.
After each Help panel appears, the screen is in the Pause mode.
When you view the Help panels, two functions are available and
appear on the screen:
• F3 (End)
• F10 (Pause)
To view the next Help panel, press F10 (Pause) to cancel Pause.
To cancel Help and return to the Ring Diagnostic mode in use before
you used the Help function, press F3 (End).
To print all Data Area Messages. When Data Area Messages
appear, press F2.
To cancel printing, press F2 again.
Data area messages continue to appear when the Print function is
active. The function key 2 = Print is highlighted when the Print
function is active.
If the printer is not ready, F4 (Retry Print) is displayed.
To end the Ring Diagnostic and return to DOS, press F3.
To cancel Help and return to the Ring Diagnostic mode in use before
you used the Help function, press F3 (End).
This key appears when a printer error occurs.
To start the printer after you remove the cause of the printer error,
press F4 (Printer Retry).
This key appears if an error occurs when you attempt to start the
Ring Diagnostic. This key also appears if an error does not allow the
Ring Diagnostics to continue.
To save the dumped computer memory information, insert a blank,
formatted diskette in A Drive.
To access the prompt messages to write a portion of the computer
memory to a diskette, press F5 (Dump).
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