From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 19:50:56 GMT-3
They've been threatening that since IOS 10.3... But I still use "wr" and
"wr t" to save my little brain space for other useful things. :)
Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, CISSP,
JNCIS, et al.
IPExpert CCIE Program Manager
IPExpert Sr. Technical Instructor
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Tim
Fletcher
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 5:13 PM
To: Calton, Doug; George Yiannibas; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: Failed 2nd Attempt
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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