RSX-11 Kermit Transfers

From: Andreas Freiherr <Andreas.Freiherr_at_Vishay.com>
Date: Sun Sep 29 18:56:30 2002

After some interesting remarks about transferring binary files, VMS,
BACKUP, and some nifty utilities, back to the original question.

The correct mode to transfer RSX task files is either BINARY or FIXED.
According to my copy of the PDP-11 Kermit User Guide, Version 3.58
(Sept. 1987), SET FILE TYPE BINARY is equivalent to SET FILE TYPE FIXED.

After transmitting SOME.TSK file, you need to make the file contiguous
again on the target system: PIP /CO/NV=SOME.TSK will do the trick.

Andreas

Christopher McNabb schrieb:
>
> Which kermit mode should be used when transfering files to an RSX-11 system
> using kermit, ASCII or BINARY? I realize this is normally based on the type
> of the file, but when I xfer task files using BINARY I get this silly "not a
> valid task" message when I try to install or run the file.
Received on Sun Sep 29 2002 - 18:56:30 BST