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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:31:51 GMT
- Subject: Re: HP1000/RTE question: How to read data to DOS/UNIX?
- Message-ID: <28510291@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- References: <dittrich.711682566@milton>
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- First of all: I suggest you call your HP support and/or sales people.
- They should be able to answer these questions.
-
- > Here are my questions:
- >
- > o Does anyone know of a way to get this data out of the machine?
-
- Of course! :-) Read on.
-
- > o Is there a program out there that will read RTE formatted disks
- > (which are on 3.5" high-density diskettes) from a PC under DOS?
-
- I assume that the RTE-A system has a harddisk besides the 3.5"
- diskette drive. If so then you can use an RTE-A program (I think it is
- called TF. Ask an RTE support person.) which can convert the files to
- UNIX tar(1) format (your "Subject: " line says "How to read data to
- DOS/UNIX?". What happened to the UNIX system? :-) Is it an HP UNIX
- system?). tar(1) is available on all UNIX systems and there are tar(1)
- clones for PCs (see comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives for information on the
- SIMTEL archives). Make sure that the diskette drive on the RTE-A system
- can write in standard 720KB or 1.44MB format (HP made 3.5" inch drives
- before they were used on PCs, so there are HP drives which are not
- compatible with the PC standard).
-
- > o Is there any way to hook a PC up to the HP1000 and simply capture
- > an ASCII representation of the data files with a terminal emulator?
-
- Yes. For example with HP's AdvanceLink terminal emulator for the PC.
- Contact your HP sales rep or PC dealer.
-
- > Thanks for any and all help I can get on this.
-
- You are welcome.
-
- Frank Slootweg, 15 years of RTE and 9 years of HP-UX, HP, Dutch CRC
-