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From: Tim Shoppa <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Help w/ file transfer in RT-11
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 13:46:10 -0400
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology
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Karl Beykirch wrote:
>
> I have inherited an LSI-11 computer running RT-11.  I'm pathetically
> ignorant about RT-11.  I have lots of data files for which I have a
> program that will output a summary to the terminal (a mac running term
> emulation- VersaTerm Pro).  I need the whole file, not just the summary.
>  The programmer who wrote the programs has left to do better things, and
> suggests editing the FORTRAN code, recompiling and outputting
> anything/everything.  My problem:  It has been over 14 years since I
> have edited in RT-11, coded in FORTRAN, compiled-linked-debugged, and I
> think those brain cells died.
>
> Since I know the format of the files, I think the easiest thing would be
> to transfer them to the mac, where I can easily extract everything.  The
> only communication ports on the DEC are serial, so I tried something
> like: COPY ABCDAT.123 TT:
>
> This causes lots of nice jibberish to dance all over the screen, but the
> captured stream is incomplete.

Seeing how you get jibberish all over your screen, the file is
almost certainly a binary file.  In order to move these files over
a serial line, you want to use Kermit on both
ends; Kermit for the RT-11 is available by anonymous ftp from
kermit.columbia.edu.  If I recall correctly, VersaTerm Pro
on a Mac has a rudimentary Kermit implementation in it.

Alternatively, you can use physical media (floppy, tape, Zip
cartridge, whatever is in common to both systems) to move the
files, or put TCP/IP on both the RT-11 and the Mac and FTP the
files in and out.

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