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From: Stuart Brook <sbrook@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: Help w/ file transfer in RT-11
Date: 03 May 1999 16:35:54 PDT
Organization: Concentric Internet Services
Message-ID: <372E32D6.5F01@concentric.net>
To: kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
Tim Shoppa wrote:
>
> Karl Beykirch wrote:
> >
> > Tim Shoppa wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Thanks Tim.
> >
> > Our data is binary.
> > I like the Kermit idea, but the PDP is on a communication island. No
> > ethernet, 8" floppy, serial lines, no common media. I can download
> > Kermit, but how do I get it on the PDP?
>
> Rather detailed instructions can be found in krthex.mac, part
> of the KRT distribution in
>
> ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/b/
>
> > Can I get it on an 8" floppy somewhere?
>
> Yes, I and others can run off copies for you.
But the thing is that the binary files will not be a lot of use to you
on the Mac, nor on a PDP if you transferred them back.