[Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

[Mark Abene]

I remember Columbia had an ASCII-encoded kermit binary which you could
either print/load as paper tape, or copy/paste into an editor.
That's how I loaded KERMIT on my old RSTS/E V7 system.

-Mark


On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:18 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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