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Printronix P5000LJ Series User Manual

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Miscellaneous Commands

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start fox|tts|loopb prn

start fox prn

Begin a debugging test on one of the I/O ports on the NIC. 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 prn

stop prn

Stop an output test on an I/O port.

disable ioport|destination

disable prn

Disable an

ioport

so that queued jobs are not printed, or disable a

destination

so jobs can not be queued to it.

enable ioport|destination

enable prn

Enable an

ioport

so that queued jobs are printed, or enable a

destination

so jobs can be queued to it.

close tcp TCPindexnumber

close tcp 3

Force a TCP/IP connection between a TCP/IP host and the NIC to close.
The

TCPindexnumber

can be retrieved from “debug tcp” output.

ping [-s] hostIPaddress [datasize [packetnumber]]

ping 192.75.11.30

ping

another TCP/IP host specified by

hostIPaddress

on the NIC

network.

datasize

is the datagram packet size which defaults to 64

bytes if no size is included in the syntax, and

packetnumber

is the

number of requests to be sent.

telnet hostIPaddress [escapecharacter]

telnet 192.75.11.35

Start a Telnet session with another TCP/IP host specified by

hostIPaddress

on the NIC 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 NIC. Use the command

set sysinfo dns...

to do

this.