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- [ netinfo/kermit-nicserver.txt ] [ 5/87, SCD ]
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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THE NIC "ANONYMOUS" KERMIT SERVER
-
- The NIC has a Kermit server available for use from the DDN without login.
- Using this, a DDN user can connect to the NIC from a TAC and download public
- files using Kermit, without having to first connect to another host or login
- to the NIC.
-
- NOTATION: In the instructions below pressing the Return (or Carriage
- Return) key is indicated with: <Return>
-
- SETUP: Your communication program must support the Kermit file transfer
- protocol, and be able to issue Kermit server commands (i.e. "get").
-
- Your communications program must have the Kermit parameters
- set so that the receive packet length is 60 (characters).
-
- USING THE SERVER:
-
- 1. Call up a DDN TAC and open a connection to NIC by typing:
-
- @n<Return>
-
- OR: @o 192.112.36.5 <Return>
-
- 2. Upon getting the NIC's banner, put the TAC in binary mode by typing:
-
- @b o s<Return>
- @b i s<Return>
-
- 3. Type <Return> again and wait for the NIC's '@' prompt to re-appear.
-
- 4. Start the NIC Kermit server by typing:
-
- kermit<Return>
-
- 5. Drop back to your PC prompt and issue the command to get the file
- you want to download (for example):
-
- get netinfo:00netinfo-index.txt<Return>
-
- ( netinfo:00netinfo.txt could be any NIC public files, i.e. RFCs, etc. )
-
- 6. When the transfer is complete, you can repeat the "get" command
- again, until you have downloaded all the files you want.
-
- 7. To end the session, type (at the PC Kermit prompt):
-
- bye<Return>
-
- This will exit from the Kermit server and logout from the NIC,
- returning you to the TAC. You can then hang up the phone.
-
- NOTE: If the NIC Kermit server doesn't respond to the 'bye'
- command, break the connection by hanging up the phone.
-