[Simh] {Spam?} transferring files to and from v6 unix running in pdp11 emulator

[Will Senn]

On 11/20/15 10:51 AM, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> Den 2015-11-20 kl. 17:35, skrev Will Senn:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have searched and searched and have not found a satisfactory answer 
>> to this question:
>>
>> How can I efficiently copy files from my host system to unix version 
>> 6 running in the pdp11 emulator and from unix 6 to my host system?
> I usually do this by just tar'ing to/from a disk file, something like:
>
> on pdp11: tar cf /dev/rxp0c myfiles
> on host: tar xf simh-disk-file
>
> Works both ways :-)
>
> -- Ragge
Hi,

This sounded promising, but as it turns out there appear to be 2 
problems... 1. v6 doesn't have tar, and 2. it looks like v6 doesn't have 
rx device support (floppies). Are you using v6 with tweaks, or v7, or 
some other variant of unix?

Thanks,

Will