3Com Switch 8800 Advanced Software V5 Configuration Guide

34 CHAPTER 2: BASIC CONFIGURATIONS
2 Enter a command and a <?> separated by a space. If <?> is at the position of a
keyword, all the keywords are given with a brief description.
<Sysname> language-mode ?
chinese Chinese environment
english English environment
3 Enter a command and a <?> separated by a space. If <?> is at the position of a
parameter, the description about this parameters is given.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] interface vlan-interface
<1-4094> VLAN interface number
[Sysname] interface vlan-interface 1 ?
<cr>
[Sysname] interface vlan-interface 1
Where, <cr> indicates that there is no parameter at this position. The command is
then repeated in the next command line and executed if you press <Enter>.
4 Enter a character string followed by a <?>. All the commands starting with this
string are displayed.
<Sysname> pi?
ping
5 Enter a command followed by a character string and a <?>. All the keywords
starting with this string are listed.
<Sysname> display ver?
version
6 Press <Tab> after entering the first several letters of a keyword to display the
complete keyword, provided these letters can uniquely identify the keyword in this
command.
Display Features CLI offers the following feature:
When the information displayed exceeds one screen, you can pause using one of
the methods shown in
Table 3.
History Command The CLI can automatically save the commands that have been used. You can
invoke and repeatedly execute them as needed. By default, the CLI can save up to
ten commands for each user. You can use the history-command max-size
command to set the capacity of the history commands log buffer for the current
user interface (For the detailed description of the history-command max-size
Tabl e 3 Display functions
Action Function
Enter <Ctrl+C> when information display
pauses
Stops the display and the command execution.
Press <Space> when information display
pauses
Continues to display information of the next
screen page.
Press <Enter> when information display
pauses
Continues to display information of the next
line.
<Ctrl+E> Moves the cursor to the end of the current line.