The P-7500 CLI provides a variety of useful context-sensitive help features. An important thing to remember about using the help features is that the use of a space or the lack of a space before the
? gives different results.
Table 4 summarizes the help system.
You can enter the question mark (?) key whenever you need additional information. When you enter
?, all available choices are displayed. When you enter
? on a line by itself or when it is preceded by one or more spaces, a list of all next available choices is displayed. Refer to
Example 1.
Alternatively, the user can terminate a command with a ? to display the complete help on that command. This feature is most powerful when the command keyword is known, but the list and format of parameters is not. Refer to
Example 2.
From the prompt, you can enter ? to display the online help:
You can terminate a CLI command with a ? to display the complete help on that command:
From the prompt, you can enter the help command when you want to display a brief description of the context-sensitive help system.
When you cannot recall a complete command name or keyword, type in the first few letters, press
Tab, and the system completes your partial entry. However, you must type enough characters to provide a unique abbreviation. If your partially entered command is not unique, the CLI presents you with a list of valid options:
A subsequent Tab displays the valid parameters for the command/argument pair: