On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Bill Cunningham <bill...@suddenlink.net> wrote: > People tell me kermit in vms can be a pain.
We used Kermit on VMS everyday back in the 80s. It was terrific. You do have to know how to use Kermit (the default option settings aren't always the best choice) and you have to understand that files on VMS are record-oriented not streams-of--bytes, so moving *binary* files to/from VMS is not so trivial (EXEs aren't bad because they are fixed-length 512-byte record and you can tell Kermit what you are up to so you write the correct format on the VMS side, .OLB and other types of random-length-record files aren't so easy - we used to wrap binaries up in a text format that preserved the record-size meta-data and send text files. Kermit is superb at that). It's not Kermit that makes this "difficult", it's RMS on VMS that makes it more complicated than files on UNIX or DOS or whatever else. All heterogenous file transfer techniques have the same hurdles. So since your use-case is moving text in and out of VMS, Kermit is an excellent choice that is not difficult to set up. -ethan _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
