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Introduction
Conventions Used in this Guide
In this Guide, text that will be displayed on your PC screen is set in
Courie
r font, and the text
you are to type for commands or in response to prompts is set in
Courier Bold
font.
The words “console” and “serial” are used interchangeably.
About Console Commands
This Guide describes commands that are typed on a PC keyboard while it is connected to the
Net2Phone MAX device through a terminal-emulator program, such as HyperTerminal. Section
2.1.2 of most MAX User Guides explains how to connect a PC to a MAX unit through the PC’s
and Max’s serial ports.
Controlling a system by means of typed commands is known as controlling at the “command
line.” Commands typed at the command line are not case-sensitive. Upper, lower, and mixed
case letters may be used.
Basic Command Line Navigation
Navigation at the MAX command line is similar to navigation at the DOS command line, except
that the backslash (\) is replaced by a forward slash (/).
When the system is ready to receive a command, it displays a “command line prompt.” The
name of the current working directory is always displayed to the right of the command line
prompt.
The root directory prompt, e.g.
SYS_NAME:>
, consists of the MAX’s system name (where
“SYS_NAME” represents the name), a colon, and a right wedge.
The explanations that follow will employ the “cd” command to illustrate the use of path
statements with a command. The cd command is used to change from the current working
directory to a different one. This command is discussed in detail in Section 1.2 in this Guide.
A target directory can be specified as an absolute path starting from a specified location, or as a
relative path based on the current directory.
An absolute path statement contains the entire path from the root directory, e.g.
SYS_NAME:/CONFIG/N2P>
, where N2P is the active directory.
A relative path includes the path from the current directory or its parent. In a relative
path statement, a single dot (
.
) takes the place of the path name of the current
directory, and a double dot (
..
) takes the place of the path name of the parent
directory.
Let us assume that your current working folder is
SYS_NAME:/CONFIG/>
.