3com 2200 User Manual

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You select a menu option at the selection prompt by entering its name (or 
enough of the name to uniquely identify it within the particular menu). For 
example, to access the system menu from the top-level menu, you enter:

Select a menu option: 

OR

Select a menu option: 

When you enter a menu option, you either go to the next menu in the 
hierarchy or you see information for the option you entered. The 
information is either a prompt or a screen display. If you enter the menu 
option incorrectly, you receive a prompt telling you that what you entered 
was not valid or was ambiguous. You must re-enter the command from the 
point at which it became incorrect. Expand a truncated command until it 
becomes unambiguous. 

When a new menu appears, the selection prompt (with its choices in 
parentheses) changes to reflect your progression through the menus. For 
example, if you enter system at the top-level menu and then baseline at 
the system menu, the prompt changes at the next level:

Select a menu option (system/baseline): 

Once you are familiar with the menu structure, instead of working your way 
down the menu hierarchy to a task, you can enter a string of menu options 
at a selection prompt to go immediately to a task. For example, the 
command string for setting a baseline from the top-level menu looks like 
this:

Select a menu option: 

The most abbreviated version of the same command string is:

Select a menu option: 

When you enter a command string, you move to the last menu level or 
option you entered in the command string, and information relevant to that 
command is displayed. It may be a menu, prompt, or screen display.