I tried something like that using RTE Kermit under RTE-6/VM on the hp2100. I could never make it work reliably, and even when it did work, the performance was horrible.
-----Original Message----- From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Dr Eberhard W Lisse Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:09 AM To: ethan.di...@gmail.com; bill...@suddenlink.net Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] text from openvms Posted this a while back to the kermit newsgroup: [...] So I downloaded CKV211-VAX-VMS73-NONET.EXE and put that in the ISO, fired up kermit on the netbook (I keep it an EVERY machine I ever use!) and ssh'ed to the localhost, fire up the simulator, log on, fire up CKV211-VAX-VMS73-NONET.EXE into servermode and Frank is your uncle :-)-O At least for text files (for the time being) :-)-O [...] Kermit always works! el On 2016-04-20 15:43, Ethan Dicks wrote: > 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 -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) e...@lisse.na / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/ _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
