D T - 6 X X X BiSync to Async ASCII Printer Application U s e r ' s M a n u a l
B u i l d 9 . 0
04/18/06
Datatek Applications Inc.
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3
A
P P L I C A T I O N
C
O M M A N D S
The DT-6XXX software is composed of two components. One component, called the
Platform,
exists to support all applications. The second component is comprised of the individual
application
(s)
.
The
Platform
provides Operating System functions, selected interfaces, protocol stacks, SNMP
functions, and system OA&M while each
application
uses the services of the resident
Platform
.
3.1 I
NPUT
C
ONVENTIONS
All parameters may be given on the command line. Parameters of the form
name=<value>
may
be given in any order.
For several complex commands, listed below, missing parameters, or corrections of errors in
given parameters, of the form
name=<value>
are collected by prompting the console user. The
user responds to a prompt for the
name
by typing the required
<value>
followed by
newline
.
Defaults are supplied in some cases, so the user need only enter
newline
.
!
Commands may be entered in upper or lower case.
!
Parameters of the form
name=value
may use upper or lower case for
name
.
!
Default values, if any, are shown in parenthesis as part of the prompt.
!
Case is preserved for values.
!
When a password is being requested by a prompt, input is not echoed.
Backspace erases one character and
@
deletes the current line of input. Most commands are
killed by
del
key.
3.2 L
OGIN
Syntax: login passwd=<password>
or
Prompted Mode:
Syntax: login
password ? PASSWD=
The
login
command is used to allow access to the other commands. The legal characters for
passwords are the upper and lower case letters, numbers, and the following special characters:
~
! @ #
$ % ^ & * ( ) _
+ { } | : < > ? ` - = [ ] \ ; ‘ , . /
Note that when inputting a password, all of these special characters are allowed. Double quote is
not allowed, nor is equal sign ‘=”allowed as the first character of a password in prompted mode.
Passwords are case sensitive.
The
passwd
parameter is not echo suppressed. However, if the
passwd
parameter is not
provided in the command line, the console prompts for a password (i.e.
prompted mode
); the
response
is
echo-suppressed in this case.
If the password is valid, the user is placed in the
logged in
mode. Once the console user is logged
in
, the rest of the commands are accessible. The
login
command is not accessible if the user is
already logged in.
