Kermit for Intel ISIS



     The ISIS Kermit program was received from Columbia University.  Since there

was  no  documentation,  this User's Guide is provided by the DSSO department of

Intel (1).



     The ISIS Kermit provides dumb terminal  emulation  and  file  transfer  for

Intel  Series  II, Series III and Series IV computers running the ISIS operation

system.  It has the basic Kermit features.



     Kermit is invoked as follows:-



                           KERMIT [baud rate] [port]



The default baud rate is 2400 and the default port is 1.  The allowable  choices

are:-



      .  Baud rate:  300 1200 2400 4800 9600



      .  Port:  1 2



On some systems the highest reliable baud rate may only be 1200,  however,  2400

baud  has  proved  to  be  reliable  enough  when  the host machine was either a

DECSystem-20 (running TOPS-20) or a VAX-11/785 (running VMS).



     The command set is listed below.  All commands may be abbreviated with  the

first  letter,  however,  commands  are  only  accepted  if  they  are  typed in

lower-case.



      o  connect



              Connects as a dumb terminal to remote systems.



              To get back to ISIS-Kermit level from  connect  mode,  the  escape

         sequence is just the single character:  Control-D.



              To avoid characters being lost whilst in dumb  terminal  mode  and

         operating  at  a  baud rate of 2400 (or greater) it is recommended that

         you set some appropriate terminal characteristics.  For example:-



         1.  For TOPS-20 use:-



                        TERMINAL SYSTEM-DEFAULT

                        TERMINAL WIDTH 80

                        TERMINAL NO RAISE



         2.  For VMS use:-



                        SET TERMINAL/CRFILL:8/LFFILL:8









(1) Corrections/additions by Paul  Hare,  Open  University,  Academic  Computing

Service.



                                                                        Page 2
00
00
00
    o  send [filename] [filename] [filename] ...
00
00
            Sends files to remote Kermit.
00
00
    o  receive
00
00
            Receive files from remote Kermit.
00
00
    o  exit
00
00
            Exit from ISIS Kermit.
00
00
    o  debug
00
00
            Turns on debug mode.
00
00
^^