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Miscellaneous Commands
start foxttsloopb prn
start fox prn
Begin a debugging test on one of the I/O ports on the PrintNet. The tests available are:
fox | A continuous stream of text sent to the attached |
| printer. This is a good test for troubleshooting |
| hardware as long as the attached printer supports |
| text output. |
tts | A continuous stream of Gandalf 400C TTS- |
| compatible text sent to the attached printer. |
loopb | Loopback test. Any input characters from the device |
| attached to the I/O port is echoed back. |
stop prn
stop prn
Stop an output test on an I/O port.
disable ioportdestination
disable prn
Disable an I/O port so that queued jobs are not printed, or disable a destination so jobs cannot be queued to it.
enable ioportdestination
enable prn
Enable an I/O port so that queued jobs are printed, or enable a destination so jobs can be queued to it.
close tcp TCPindexnumber
close tcp 3
Force a TCP/IP connection between a TCP/IP host and the PrintNet to close. The TCPindexnumber can be retrieved from “debug tcp” output.
ping [-s] hostIPaddress [datasize [packetnumber]]
ping 192.75.11.30
“ping” another TCP/IP host specified by hostIPaddress on the PrintNet network. datasize is the datagram packet size which defaults to 64 bytes if no size is included in the syntax and packetnumber is the number of requests to be sent.
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