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 .