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- Command: kermit - transfer a file using the kermit protocol
- Syntax: kermit
- Flags: (many)
- Example: kermit # Start kermit
- This is a slightly lobotomized kermit. The help command, the
- script facility, and the automatic dial support have been removed. The ?
- and ESC commands still work, so there is still reasonable built-in help.
- The only V7 kermit feature that does not work is the ability to see
- whether there are input characters waiting. This means that you will
- not be able to ask for status during a file transfer (though this is not
- critical, because kermit prints a dot every so often and other special
- characters whenever there is an error or timeout).
- Start kermit, and then type the following to open a 2400 baud
- session, for example:
- set line /dev/tty1
- set speed 2400
- connect
- (It is more convenient if you put these commands in .kermrc in your home
- directory, so that they get done automatically whenever you run kermit.)
- This will connect you to the modem or whatever on the serial port. Now
- log into the other system.
- When you want to transfer files, run kermit on the other system.
- To it, type
- server
- This puts its kermit into a sort of 'slave mode' where it expects
- commands from the kermit running on your MINIX system. Now come back to
- the command level on MINIX kermit, by typing the escape character
- followed by c. (Kermit will tell you the current escape character when
- you do the connect command.) At this point you can issue various
- commands. Your kermit will coordinate things with kermit on the other
- machine so that you only have to type commands at one end. Common
- commands are
- get filename
- put filename
- remote dir
- Filenames can include wildcards. By default, kermit works in a system-
- independent, text mode. (In effect it assumes that the whole world is
- MS-DOS and converts end of line and file names accordingly.) To send
- binary files, you will want to type
- set file type bin
-
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- on both ends before starting any transfers. This disables CR LF to
- newline conversion. If both of your systems are some flavor of UNIX,
- you might as well put this in .kermrc on both ends and run in binary
- mode all the time. Also, if both systems are UNIX it is recommended
- that you use
- set file name lit
- on both ends. This causes it to keep file names unchanged, rather than
- mapping to legal MS-DOS names.
- Here is a typical .kermrc for use on MINIX:
- set line /dev/tty1
- set speed 1200
- set esc 29
- set file type bin
- set file name lit
- set retry 90
- set prompt MINIX kermit>
- connect
- On the other end of the line, for example, the host at your local
- computer center to which you want to transfer files, a typical profile
- might be:
- set rec packet 1000
- set fil name lit
- set fil type bin
- server
- Kermit has many other options and features. For a pleasant and
- highly readable description of it, see the following book:
- Title: Kermit: A File Transfer Protocol
- Author: Frank da Cruz
- Publisher: Digital Press
- Date: 1987
- ISBN: 0-932376-88
- For information about recent kermit developments, versions for
- other systems, and so forth, please contact:
- Christine M. Gianone
- Manager, Kermit Development and Distribution
- University Center for Computing Activities
- Columbia University
- 612 West 115th Street
-
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- New York, N.Y. 10025
- Over 400 versions of kermit are available, so it is likely there is one
- for any computer your MINIX system might want to talk to. Columbia
- University also publishes a newsletter about kermit that can be
- requested from the above address.
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