From: Tim Fletcher (groupstudy@fletchmail.net)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 19:13:08 GMT-3
Cisco used to say they were going to remove the write command someday, but I haven't heard that in a while. I heard a rumor several years ago that they actually tried to remove it, but it broke so many things they gave up and left it in.
-Tim Fletcher
At 04:10 AM 3/26/04, Calton, Doug wrote:
>That's great advice - a coworker also mentioned the write command. I
>got conditioned against that with the ccnp written exams, probably and
>had forgotten all about it. Funny how long it takes to retire old code
>sometimes, eh?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Yiannibas [mailto:hintgy@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 2:56 AM
>To: Calton, Doug; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: Failed 2nd Attempt
>
>
>Doug,
>Having also failed twice I feel your pain. Take an honest look at your
>weaknesses, rest a bit, rewrite your study plan and go for it. For
>example
>(I hate to nitpick here but I must) copy run start is way too long
>command
>for a CCIE Lab participant. Try wr insted (short form for write memory,
>older command but still works fine). Sometimes, no always in the Lab,
>it's
>the little things can make a difference between a pass and a fail
>
>Best of luck
>George
>
>>One side story for my day that probably defined the day for me overall:
>
>>Early on, I had some debugs streaming on my screen as I typed in copy
>>run star And of course, it ended up coming out as "copy runs tar".
>>Anyway, when I answered the prompt through the blur of debugs, I didn't
>
>>recognise that it was asking me if it should erase flash prior to
>>saving "tar", and not what to name the running config. Had to go to
>>the proctor with hat in hand to ask him to restore my flash. Maybe I'm
>
>>just fighting a losing battle here, eh?
>>
>
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