[Simh] Transferring data

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Apr 21 20:48:04 EDT 2016


> On Apr 21, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
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>> On 22 Apr 2016, at 01:51, Robert Thomas <rft at asthomas.com> wrote:
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>> Putty is a fairly compact open source terminal emulator.  Would Putty be a viable alternative to Kermit?  We made extensive use of Kermit before the internet existed.  It was usually over modems between PDP-11’s running RSTS/E or RSX-11M.  We had a lot of command files that used utilities to turn binary data into ascii and unpack it at the receiving site.  It worked but reliability was always a problem.
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> I don’t think Putty has any file transfer mechanisms…

SCP, I believe, which is RCP over an SSH tunnel.  Not much to it as far as I remember.

	paul




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