Ethan, I use Kermit for basically all connections to servers, even modern ones that use SSH (you can do a SET HOST /PTY <ssh script name> to connect) so that I can do inline file transfers quickly instead of having to open another window for doing an scp/sftp..
Works brilliantly. Sampsa > On 20 Apr 2016, at 18:45, Ken Cornetet <ken.corne...@kimballelectronics.com> > wrote: > > I tried something like that using RTE Kermit under RTE-6/VM on the hp2100. I > could never make it work reliably, and even when it did work, the performance > was horrible. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Dr Eberhard W > Lisse > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:09 AM > To: ethan.di...@gmail.com; bill...@suddenlink.net > Cc: simh@trailing-edge.com > Subject: Re: [Simh] text from openvms > > Posted this a while back to the kermit newsgroup: > > [...] > So I downloaded CKV211-VAX-VMS73-NONET.EXE and put that in the ISO, fired up > kermit on the netbook (I keep it an EVERY machine I ever > use!) and ssh'ed to the localhost, fire up the simulator, log on, fire up > CKV211-VAX-VMS73-NONET.EXE into servermode and Frank is your uncle :-)-O > > At least for text files (for the time being) :-)-O [...] > > Kermit always works! > > el > > > On 2016-04-20 15:43, Ethan Dicks wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Bill Cunningham <bill...@suddenlink.net> >> wrote: >>> People tell me kermit in vms can be a pain. >> >> We used Kermit on VMS everyday back in the 80s. It was terrific. >> You do have to know how to use Kermit (the default option settings >> aren't always the best choice) and you have to understand that files >> on VMS are record-oriented not streams-of--bytes, so moving *binary* >> files to/from VMS is not so trivial (EXEs aren't bad because they are >> fixed-length 512-byte record and you can tell Kermit what you are up >> to so you write the correct format on the VMS side, .OLB and other >> types of random-length-record files aren't so easy - we used to wrap >> binaries up in a text format that preserved the record-size meta-data >> and send text files. Kermit is superb at that). It's not Kermit that >> makes this "difficult", it's RMS on VMS that makes it more complicated >> than files on UNIX or DOS or whatever else. All heterogenous file >> transfer techniques have the same hurdles. >> >> So since your use-case is moving text in and out of VMS, Kermit is an >> excellent choice that is not difficult to set up. >> >> -ethan > > > -- > Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (Saar) > e...@lisse.na / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) > PO Box 8421 \ / > Bachbrecht, Namibia ;____/ > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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