Summary of Kermit Commands

Each of the commands that you may type, possibly followed by additional keywords or operands, is called a field. You can abbreviate keywords (but not file names) to any length that makes them distinguishable from any other keyword valid for that field. You can type a question mark at any time to get information about what's expected or valid at that point.

Here is a brief list of Kermit commands as they can be found in most Kermit programs. The following sections will describe these commands in more detail.

• For exchanging files:

  SEND, RECEIVE, GET

• Connecting to a remote host:

  CONNECT, SET LINE, SET PARITY, SET DUPLEX, SET HANDSHAKE, SET ESCAPE, SET FLOW-CONTROL, SET SPEED (or BAUD)

• Acting as a server:

  SERVER

• Talking to a server:

  BYE, FINISH, GET, SEND, REMOTE

• Setting nonstandard transmission and file parameters:

  SET BLOCK-CHECK, SET DEBUG, SET DELAY, SET FILE, SET INCOMPLETE, SET PARITY, SET RETRY;

  SET SEND (or RECEIVE) : END-OF-LINE, START-OF-PACKET, PACKET-LENGTH, PAUSE, TIMEOUT, PADDING

• Defining ``macros'' of commands:

  DEFINE

• Interrupting transmission:

  CONTROL-X, CONTROL-Z, CONTROL-C, CONTROL-E

• Getting information:

  HELP, STATISTICS, SHOW

• Executing command files:

  TAKE

• Recording the history of a file transfer operation:

  LOG: TRANSACTIONS, SESSION, DEBUG

• Non-protocol file capture or transmission:

  TRANSMIT, INPUT, OUTPUT, PAUSE, CLEAR, SCRIPT

• Closing log files:

  CLOSE

• Leaving the program:

  EXIT, QUIT

If you have a Kermit initialization file in the appropriate location, Kermit will execute an automatic TAKE command on it upon initial startup. This file may contain any Kermit commands, for instance SET commands, or DEFINEs for macros to configure Kermit to various systems or communications media.

The file name is system-dependent, i.e.

MSKERMIT.INI in MS-DOS
.KERMRC in Unix