Overview of the Command-Line Interface

1.2The console

When an executable image runs, if it is built with support for the CLI, it initializes and gives the INET> prompt.

The device where this prompt is displayed is determined by the porting engineer and varies depending on the nature of the target system.

In the Menus demo, the prompt is output on a serial port and user input is accepted from the serial port.

In the Telnet demonstration program, the Telnet server outputs the prompt to a connected Telnet client, and input is accepted from his client.

For purpose of this documentation, this input/output device is called the target system console.

More than one console may be active at the same time.

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