The format of the LOOP command is: LOOP target [loop-options] Target types are: EXECUTOR LINE NODE The loop options are: COUNT LENGTH WITH For more help use: HELP LOOP loop-option HELP LOOP target-type 2 COUNT Use the COUNT option to specify the number of messages to be looped. The format is: COUNT number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 1-65535. If the COUNT option is not used, the default count is 1. 2 EXECUTOR Use the LOOP EXECUTOR command to loop test using a logical link within the executor node. The format is: LOOP EXECUTOR [access-control] [loop-options] Where access-control is any access control necessary to gain access to the executor loopback mirror, and loop-options is zero or more of COUNT, LENGTH and/or WITH. For more help use: HELP ACCESS CONTROL HELP LOOP loop-option HELP EXECUTOR 2 WITH Use the WITH option to specify the type of data in the messages to be looped. The format is: WITH block-type Where block-type is one of: MIXED to use blocks of alternating binary ones and zeroes. ONES to use blocks of binary ones. ZEROES to use blocks of binary zeroes. If the WITH option is not used, the default is MIXED. 2 LENGTH Use the LENGTH option to specify the number of bytes of test data in the messages to be looped. The format is: LENGTH number Where number is a decimal integer in the range 1-65535. If the LENGTH option is not used, the default length is 128. Note that if the length selected is too long for the message handling modules, the user will be informed as to the maximum allowable length. 2 LINE Use the LOOP LINE command to loop test a specific line. The format is: LOOP LINE line-id [loop-options] Where line-id is the identification of the executor's line that is to be loop tested and loop-options is zero or more of COUNT, LENGTH and/or WITH. The line must be in either the ON or SERVICE state. If it is in the ON state it will be temporarily made unavailable to its owner and used for the loop test. If it is in the SERVICE state it is reserved for such operations as loop and the owner is already not using it. For more help use: HELP LINE HELP LOOP loop-option 2 NODE Use the LOOP NODE command to loop test to a specific node using a logical link. The format is: LOOP NODE node-id [access-control] [loop-options] Where node-id is the identification of the node that is to be connected to for the loop test, access-control is any access control necessary to gain access to the node's loopback mirror, and loop-options is zero or more of COUNT, LENGTH and/or WITH. The node can be either a normal node or a loop node. For more help use: HELP ACCESS CONTROL HELP LOOP loop-option HELP NODE HELP SET NODE LINE 2 WITH Use the WITH option to specify the type of data in the messages to be looped. The format is: WITH data-type Where data type is one of: MIXED - for data composed of alternating binary zeroes and ones. ONES - for data composed of all binary ones. ZEROES - for data composed of all binary zeroes. If the WITH option is not used, the default data type is MIXED.