John Lawson wrote:
> I wrote this gentleman off-list (as the S/N ratio is rather out of hand
>just now) and asked some basic questions... mainly trying to find if he
>had just a disk, or the who thing. Follows is my reply to his response;
>if anyone can jump in with more or better info for him, please respond
>directly and cc: the list.
>
> The meta question is: what's he gonna do with the system once the data
>is mined??
>
> Cheers
>
>John
>
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:47:25 -0500 (EST)
>From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
>To: nk badoni <badoni_nk_at_yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: Transfer of Files From RSX-11
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>On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, nk badoni wrote:
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>>Hello John
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>>Thank you very much for your kind reply.
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>>Yes it is a complete system.
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> Ah... this makes the process *much* easier! A bit of info now would
>be: what is the model of your DEC system? (ie PDP 11/23, VAX 11/750,
>PRO350... etc)
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>>I have checked Kermit but I could not find this S/W
>>there. Might be my process was wrong.
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> Hmmm... a lot of RSX systems had Kermit as part of the Distribution
>Kit.. you can try:
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> MCR> DIR kerm*.*,*
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> but if your disk is big and you CPU slow, this can take upto an hour to
>complete.
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> OR, you can use a Terminal Emulating program on your Wintel machine (I
>use VanDyke's CRT on my IBM Thinkpad running Win2K). Then, find the
>file(s) you want, and use the RSK 'type' command to list them to the port
>you are attached (logically and physically) to. Use your terminal
>program's "logging" or "screen capture" function, and... there you are!
>The files are safe on your PC. (This assumes you have a multi-port set of
>serial terminal connectors attached to the computer. This procedure can
>also be done using the PC terminal emulator attached to the DEC system
>console port. The object is to list the files as an ASCII stream and
>capture that listing on the PC's HD.
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I've always had problems with transfering files this way.
You can lose lines, and not notice till it's way too late.
Usually it was obvious (program wouldn't compile), but
I wouldn't trust it very well.
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> This will work with any storage media on your DEC computer, HDs or
>Floppies, by the way.
>
> Please write to the classiccmp list during this process, and we will all
>try to help out as much as possible.
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> I will also forward this correspondence to the List.
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There are ways of getting kermit onto a machine without it. It was a
common problem, and was usually documented with the distribution
for each varient. Start at
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
and you should be able to find everything you need. They should have a
"current" version of kermit for that machine.
Received on Tue Feb 18 2003 - 14:17:00 GMT