Nortel Networks 2500 Series Customizing your system, Setting the terminal, Show terminal command

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Customizing your system

You can customize your system using the CLI commands described in this section. This section covers the following topics:

•"Setting the terminal" (page 193)

•"Displaying system information" (page 195)

•"Setting boot parameters" (page 196)

•"Setting TFTP parameters" (page 197)

•"Customizing the opening banner" (page 200)

Setting the terminal

You can view the terminal settings, set them to default settings, or customize the terminal settings. This sections contains information about the following commands:

•"show terminal command" (page 193)

•"terminal command" (page 193)

show terminal command

The show terminal command displays the current serial port information, which includes connection speed, as well as the terminal width and length in number of characters. The syntax for the show terminal command is:

show terminal

The show terminal command is executed in the User Exec command mode.

The show terminal command has no parameters or variables.

Figure 63 "show terminal command output" (page 193) shows the output from the show terminal command.

Figure 63

show terminal command output

terminal command

The terminal command configures the settings for the terminal. These settings are transmit and receive speeds, terminal length, and terminal width. The syntax of the terminal command is:

Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 2500 Series

Overview — System Configuration

NN47215-500 (323162-B) 02.02 Standard

4.1 19 November 2007

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