[Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

[Clem Cole]

You tried to get it from someone else for your system often
PaperTape/Floppy/MagTape as Paul described.
By many times connecting the terminal to another system and 'printing' it.
Often a glass TTY had a second 'printer port' and if you did some work, you
could type it out.  Truth is it was probably a boot strap.   You typed in
something that was a subset, maybe just a file transfer.

Many Kermits were hacks from a different one from a different version.
 This was true until ckermit appeared, which was fairly late in Kermit's
life, but was the fanciest.   Then people started to create versions of
ckermit for specific systems.  They would use the older (like functional
one) to bring over the newer one.

Clem
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Bryan Davies <bryan.e.davies at gmail.com>
wrote:

> But I've always wondered - how do you get Kermit onto the target machine?
>
> On 23 January 2018 at 20:16, Jordi Guillaumes Pons <
> jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:
>
>>
>> Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
>> jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
>> HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES
>>
>>
>>
>> On 23 Jan 2018, at 21:13, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> SAV files would be binaries (RT11 format).  BAS are source files.
>>
>> There are a number of solutions.  Text files you could load via paper
>> tape, with the text file attached to the SIMH tape reader.  That's not as
>> good an answer for binaries though it could be made to work.
>>
>> Magtape or disk are better solutions.  Disk works well if you have a
>> program that can write disk images in a format the target OS knows.  That's
>> easy in this case; you can use my "flx" (RSTS File Exchange) program to do
>> this.  There's an older version written in C, a newer one written in Python
>> 3.  For the former, look in svn://akdesign.dyndns.org/flx/branches/V2.6,
>> for the latter, in svn://akdesign.dyndns.org/flx/trunk.  There's
>> documentation for both in those respective directories.  (Commments and bug
>> reports, especially for the new version, would be appreciated.)
>>
>>
>> There’s always kermit…
>>
>
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