.PROC,KERHELP. $REPLACE(ZZZKHLP) $REVERT(NOLIST) .DATA,ZZZKHLP. SET File-type Ascii ASCII files are files of text. The ASCII character set is an international standard consisting of 95 printable characters (including a blank space) and 33 other 'characters'. You can create an ASCII file on the Cyber by using one of the Cyber editors, FSE or XEDIT, or by giving the TEXT command when your terminal is in ASCII mode. .EOR SET File-type Binary BINARY files contain information, but this data is not in the form of text; it is stored as a sequence of yes-or-no BITS of data. Kermit reads and writes BINARY files bit by bit. When writing a BINARY file, Kermit may add extra bits to the end of the file to fill out the last word. If you have a binary file (not a text file) which you wish to transfer from one micro to another via the Cyber, you may want Cyber Kermit to receive and send it as a KERMIT file. .EOR SET File-type Kermit A KERMIT file is a special kind of binary file. You should not use a KERMIT file to store text. You should use a KERMIT file only if you do NOT wish to use your file on the Cyber or on the Amdahl. The advantage of a KERMIT file is that Cyber Kermit does not append data to the file to make it conform to the Cyber's large wordsize. KERMIT files make sense only to Cyber Kermit; they are useless for any other purpose. .EOR SET File-type Display DISPLAY code files are files of text. Almost all compilers on the Cyber accept only DISPLAY code input; if you are transferring a program text, you probably need to SET the File-type to DISPLAY. DISPLAY code files contain only sixty-four printable characters. There are no lower-case letters in DISPLAY code files, so they are some- times called 'upper-case' files. You can create a DISPLAY code file on the Cyber by using one of the Cyber editors FSE or XEDIT, or by giving the TEXT command when your terminal is in NORMAL mode. .EOR SET File-type Eight EIGHT code files are files of text. Some programs call them ASCII8 or 8 files. You can create an EIGHT code file on the Cyber with the FSE editor or with the FCOPY command. Most people do not need to use this type of file. .EOR SET DEBug OFf Cyber Kermit always writes a record of your Kermit session on the log file ZZZKLOG. This file ordinarily lists any command you give except 'SHow' and 'STatus'. Cyber Kermit records in the log any changes it must make to file names, certain error messages, and statistics for all file transfers. When DEBug is SET OFf, the log contains no other information. DEBug is always OFf unless you SET it ON. Note: The Cyber command KERMIT can list or print the log file for you. For information, give the Cyber command HELPME,KERMIT .EOR SET DEBug ON Cyber Kermit's log file always contains all of your commands 'SHow' and 'STatus', all changes Cyber Kermit makes to file names, all error messages received from other Kermits, and statistics for each file transfer. If you SET DEBug ON, your log file will contain a two-line entry for every packet Cyber Kermit sends and receives. Ordinarily you should not need to SET DEBug ON. (If you are curious, use a VERY short file.) .EOR SENd The SENd command tells Cyber Kermit to send a file to another Kermit. The format of the command is SENd filename You must always name the file you wish to SENd. .EOR Receive The Receive command tells Cyber Kermit to receive a file from another Kermit. This command has two forms: Receive filename tells Kermit to receive a file, and that the file should have the name 'filename' if no local file has that name already. Receive tells Kermit to receive a file, and to name the file whatever the other Kermit calls it, if possible. .EOR SERver The SERver command tells Cyber Kermit that you will no longer be talking to it directly, but that your commands will arrive in packets sent by the micro Kermit. To cancel a SERver com- mand, use the Cyber Escape code. To find out what your Cyber Escape code is, give the SHow command. (The Cyber Escape code is CTRL-C unless you have changed it.) You may also cancel a SERver command by giving the command FINISH to your micro Kermit. .EOR Exit and Quit Cyber Kermit (unlike some of its relatives) makes no distinc- tion between these two commands. Exit and Quit stop Cyber Kermit so you can give regular NOS commands to Cyber's opera- ting system (including the GO or BYE command to log out, the ATTACH and GET commands to make local files -- Cyber Kermit cannot send permanent files -- or the SAVE, REPLACE, DSAVE, and DEPLACE commands -- since Cyber Kermit cannot write permanent files). .EOR Push The Push command allows you to stop Cyber Kermit temporarily while you to give NOS commands to the Cyber operating system. Unlike the Exit and Quit commands, the Push command saves all the options you have SET before giving the Push command; when you give the next KERMIT command to the Cyber, any values you set before Pushing will be restored. .EOR SET Bit-prefix To set a different Bit-prefix, use the command SET Bit-prefix X where 'X' is the new Bit-prefix. The Bit-prefix must differ from the Quote-char and the REPeat-char, and it may not be an upper-case letter or one of the following eight characters: [ ] / ^ ` #_ ? @ If you do not give an argument, Cyber Kermit assumes you wish to set the default Bit-prefix '&'. .EOR SET Quote-char To set a different Quote-character, use the command SET Quote-char X where 'X' is the character to be used. The Quote-char cannot be the same as the Bit-prefix or the REPeat-char, and it may not be an upper-case letter or one of these eight characters: [ ] / ^ ` #_ ? @ If you do not give an argument, Cyber Kermit assumes you wish to set the default Quote-char '##'. .EOR SET REPeat-char To set a different REPeat-character, use the command SET REPeat-char X where 'X' is the new REPeat-char. The Repeat-char cannot be the same as the Bit-prefix or the Quote-char, and it may not be an upper-case letter or one of these eight characters: [ ] / ^ ` #_ ? @ If you do not give an argument, Cyber Kermit assumes you wish to set the default REPeat-char '~'. .EOR SET DELay To SET a different DELay period, use the command SET DELay N where N is the number of seconds which Cyber Kermit will ask your micro Kermit to wait for a response. The DELay must be between 5 and 94 seconds. If you do not give an argument, Cyber Kermit will set the default DELay period, which is 20 seconds. .EOR SET Escape To SET a different Escape character, use the command SET Escape X where X is a letter or one of the following seven characters: [ ] / ^ ` #_ @ This sets the Escape character to the unprintable character you produce when you press the CONTROL key together with the letter or symbol you have selected. The Escape character may not be the same as the Marker, and it may not be CONTROL with any one of the letters H, J, M, P, Q, S, T, or X. If you do not type an argument for this command, Cyber Kermit tries to SET the default Escape character, CTRL-C. .EOR SET Marker To SET a different Marker character, use the command SET Marker X where X is a letter or one of the following seven characters: [ ] / ^ ` #_ @ This sets the Marker to the unprintable character you produce when you press the CONTROL key together with the letter or symbol you have selected. The Marker may not be the same as the Escape character, and it may not be CONTROL with any one of the letters H, J, M, P, Q, S, T, or X. If you do not type an argument for this command, Cyber Kermit tries to SET Escape to the default character, CTRL-C. .EOR SET Packet-length To SET a different Packet-length for the maximum length of packet which Cyber Kermit asks to receive, give the command SET Packet-length N where N is the length of the longest packet Cyber will then be able to receive. The Packet-length must be in the range 40 -- 94. The default Packet-length is 94, and if you give the SET Packet-length command without a parameter, Cyber Kermit SETs the Packet-length to 94. .EOR SET RETry To SET the maximum number of retries allowed when attempting to transmit a single packet, give the command SET RETry N where N is the maximum number of retries per packet. RETry must be in the range 3 -- 30. The default RETry limit is 5, and if you give the SET RETry command without a parameter, Cyber Kermit SETs the RETry limit to 5. .EOR Type You can give the Type command only if Cyber Kermit is running as a SERver. This command is useful for learning whether you have SET the correct File- type, because you can interrupt the Type command from your micro. The format of the command is Type Cyberfilename You are not allowed to Type Binary or Kermit format files. .EOR You can send the following commands to Cyber Kermit when it is in SERver mode: SEt-file-type STatus SHow Type .EOR The SEt-file-type command requires one parameter, the name of a type of file recognised by Cyber Kermit: Ascii Eight Binary Kermit Display For more information, consult the Cyber Kermit User Guide. .DATA,DUMMY.