[Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-01-23 21:18, Bryan Davies wrote:
> But I've always wondered - how do you get Kermit onto the target machine?

Kermit comes in source form. Text is easier to transfer. Kermit-11 also 
exists as a binary encoded in a very simple format as text, and then you 
have a very simple decoding program which recreates the binary from that.
All available if you check in the Kermit distribution.

   Johnny

> 
> On 23 January 2018 at 20:16, Jordi Guillaumes Pons 
> <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name <mailto:jg at jordi.guillaumes.name>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
>     jg at jordi.guillaumes.name <mailto:jg at jordi.guillaumes.name>
>     HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES
> 
> 
> 
>>     On 23 Jan 2018, at 21:13, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net
>>     <mailto: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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