When in local mode ^C and ^T have their usual TENEX
effect.
Occasinally a user may find it necessary to modify the
characteristics of a connection to a particular remote
site. For example, he may want to have MLTNET echo
typed input as it is transmitted. Or, he may be using a
remote host which requires both upper and lower case
characters from a local terminal which has only upper
case; in such a case he would want MLTNET to transmit
upper and lower case as appropriate. In remote mode
operation MLTNET recognizes "!" as an escape character
and interprets the character following it as a command
to change the characterristics of the connection currently
in use. Commands recognized by MLTNET in remote mode
are summerized in the next section. To have MLTNET
transmit "!" to the remote site the user types "!!".
MLTNET Command Summary
Local Mode Commands
MLTNET uses the character " and denote command parameters. They are
strings terminated by a space or carriage return. is a user
chosen string of 14 characters or less; site is either the name of an
ARPANET host or the string "LOCAL".
The commands recognized by MLTNET in local mode are:
ASSIGN:
syntax: ASSIGN
effect: Associates the user chosen string with a
connection to the ARPANET site .