IBM 6500 manual Fox, Tts, Loopb

Miscellaneous Commands

start foxttsloopb prn Example: start fox prn

Begin a debugging test on one of the I/O ports on the Ethernet Interface. 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 allprn

Stop an output test on an I/O port.

telnet hostIPaddress [escapecharacter]

Example: telnet 192.75.11.35

Start a Telnet session with another TCP/IP host specified by hostIPaddress on the Ethernet Interface network. If escapecharacter is used, it resets the key sequence used to exit the Telnet session. It will return you to the telnet> prompt where you can execute quit. Use the keycode command to find out exact escape characters if needed. The default character is CTRL].

NOTE: To use a host or IP name instead of the address, you must have set the DNS server on the Ethernet Interface. Use the command set sysinfo dns... to do this.

tn dest destination startstop Example: tn dest d1prn start

Set the tn autoconnect flag temporarily to enable (start) or disable (stop). For more information, see the command “store tn dest <dxprn> [-]autoconnect” on page 343.

? (Help)

Lists all available commands.

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