(HP-UX C-Kermit)
NAME
kermit - C-Kermit 7.0 communications software for serial and network connections: modem dialing, ®le transfer and management, terminal connection, character-set translation, numeric and alpha paging, and script programming
SYNOPSIS
kermit [ command-®le ] [ options ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Kermit is a family of ®le transfer, management, and communication software programs from the Kermit Project at Columbia University available for most computers and operating systems. The version of Kermit for Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, called C-Kermit, supports both serial connections (direct or dialed) and TCP/IP connections.
C-Kermit can be thought of as a user-friendly and powerful alternative to cu, tip, uucp, ftp, telnet, rlogin, expect, and even your shell; a single package for both network and serial communications, offering automation, convenience, and language features not found in the other packages, and having a great deal in common with its cousins, C-Kermit on other UNIX platforms, Kermit 95 for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT and 2000, and OS/2; MS-DOS Kermit for PCs with DOS and Windows 3.x, and IBM Mainframe Kermit-370 for VM/CMS, MVS/TSO, and CICS. C-Kermit itself also runs on Digital VMS, Data General AOS/VS, Stratus VOS, OS-9, QNX, Plan 9, the Commodore Amiga, and elsewhere. Together, C- Kermit, Kermit 95, MS-DOS Kermit, and IBM Mainframe Kermit offer a consistent and nearly universal approach to inter-computer communications.
C-Kermit 7.0 is Copyright (C) 1985, 2000 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. For use and redistribution rights, see the C-Kermit COPYING.TXT ®le or give the C-Kermit COPYRIGHT command (summary: no license is required for own use; no license is required for distribution with Open Source operating systems; a license is required for certain other forms of redistribution).
C-Kermit 7.0 is included with HP-UX by Hewlett-Packard in partnership with the Kermit Project at Colum- bia University.
C-Kermit 6.0 is thoroughly documented in the book Using C-Kermitby Frank da Cruz and Christine M. Gianone, Digital Press, Second Edition, 1997; see REFERENCES at the end of this manual page. This manual page is not a substitute for the book. If you are a serious user of C-Kermit, particularly if you plan to write C-Kermit script programs, you should purchase the manual. Book sales are the primary source of funding for the nonpro®t Kermit Project.
Any new features added since the most recent edition of the book was published are documented in the online ®le ckermit2.upd until such time as the Third Edition of the book is ready. Hints, tips, limitations, restrictions are listed in ckcker.txt (general C-Kermit) and ckuker.bwr (UNIX-speci®c); see FILES below. Please consult all of these references before reporting problems or asking for technical support.
Kermit software is available for hundreds of different computers and operating systems from Columbia University. For best ®le-transfer results, please use C-Kermit in conjunction with real Columbia University Kermit software on other computers, such as Kermit 95 for Windows 95 and NT or MS-DOS Kermit for DOS 3.x or Windows. See CONTACTS below.
MODES OF OPERATION
C-Kermit can be used in two "modes": remote and local. In remote mode, you connect to the HP-UX system from a desktop computer and transfer ®les between your desktop computer and HP-UX C-Kermit. In that case, connection establishment (dialing, TELNET connection, etc.) is handled by the Kermit program on your desktop computer.
In local mode, C-Kermit establishes a connection to another computer by direct serial connection, by dialing a modem, or by making a network connection. When used in local mode, C-Kermit gives you a terminal connection to the remote computer, using your actual terminal, emulator, or UNIX workstation terminal window or console driver for speci®c terminal emulation.
C-Kermit also has two types of commands: the familiar UNIX-style command-line options, and an interactive dialog with a prompt. Command-line options give you access to a small but useful subset of C- Kermit's features for terminal connection and ®le transfer, plus the ability to pipe ®les into or out of Kermit for transfer.
Interactive commands give you access to dialing, script programming, character-set translation, and, in general, detailed control and display, as well as automation, of all C-Kermit's features. Interactive commands can also be collected into command ®les or macros. C-Kermit's command and script language is
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