Comments are in italics. This message comes from the Computing Center Terminal server, which is the interface between the phones and the campus-wide network. From here, you can connect to any of the individual machines on campus. The connect command connects you to comix, and the rest is the name of the computer you are connecting to. It will not be echoed to your screen.
Users often wish to transfer a file from one of the department's unix hosts to a computer at home.
This is called downloading. The reverse process, when the files are sent from the user's computer at home to the unix host, is called uploading. How you upload and download depends on what protocols your terminal emulation program supports that are matched by the department's computers. The protocols available for downloading and uploading on the department's machines are kermit, xmodem, ymodem and zmodem. These are available through the commands kermit, sx, rx, sy, ry, sz and rz.