[Simh] Way out idea for simh

[Sampsa Laine]

> On 21 Apr 2016, at 01:14, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Ken Cornetet wrote:
>> Kermit cannot be made to work reliably on RTE-6/VM under simh. At least I
>> was never able to make it work.
>> 
>> Not to mention that trying to use an
>> emulator other than QCTerm (which doesn't do Kermit) with RTE is a major
>> PITA.
>> 
>> I used Kermit extensively on real RTE systems to transfer files to a variety of
>> systems.
> 
> If you have a version of Kermit that actually worked on real hardware and
> doesn't work on the simulator, then as others have said this is a deficiency/bug
> in the simulator.  If you can come up with a repeatable configuration I'll be glad
> help get this fixed.
> 
> If you or someone else wants to implement the other ideas being discussed in
> this thread, you can pursue that as well, but I'm real sure that fixing the existing
> Kermit issue is a much simpler problem.
> 

The problem I have with say CP/M Kermit is that it wants to write to the AUX device which I never bothered to figure out how to do since there’s a way to read/write files to/from the host OS built into the Altair emulator.

sampsa



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