Terminal tool - 'More' command and termination

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Background information:

Telnet commands sometime return lots of data, and would not send it in one answer, but will send a part and ask the user for more commands that will ask for the data(hitting one of the keys – different for devices). In this way, the  device will send a block of data each time you press a key and go on, until all data will be fully transmitted.

On this point, devices will mainly be divided to two groups:

• group one -  which sends a text string on each block's end (for ex:"—more—"),
• group two -  which sends this text string on the first block and that’s it. It will ask for more commands(For sending the data) of the next blocks and on the last block it will send a message that this is the last part.

Terminating a terminal command:

The terminal tool will display the "more" request in both cases:

 

 

If you will try to use this text string as a termination text in a command, It will work on devices from group one, but not on devices from group two(as a defined behavior of the system) – what seems to the user as a bug.

Solution:

• The way to use termination in command with devices from group two will be idle timeout.

 

Example to device in group two: windows telnet server(which will run the cmd shell)

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 (Quali) - 03/03/2013 01:23 PM

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