[HECnet] Kermit for RSTS/E

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-11-17 07:55, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:

On Nov 15, 2014, at 9:17 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

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Anyway, K11.TSK is probably not what you want, since all the TSK files on MIM are RSX images. You probably want to grab all the sources, and the command files, and build it yourself.
I checked, and there are definitely RSTS/E build files in there.

I haven   t tried it, at least not much, with RSX images.   But the emulation in RSTS is often able to run unmodified images from the other operating systems.   It certainly works that way for RT11 emulation.   It is true that using a RSTS/E build is preferable, if you can find one, because that will enable some RSTS-specific things.   But if all you can find is an RSX image, it   s worth a try.

Yes, many RSX images will work. And I have not checked if KERMIT do something tricky or not. If it's just plain RSX code, then it could work just fine under RSTS/E. If they use ASTs to actually deal with things in an asynchronous manner, or more odd RSX stuff, then the RSTS/E emulation layer might not be enough.
I know that there are separate build files and pieces for RSTS/E in KERMIT-11, and since those files are available, I would just grab it all (from MIM:: for example) and built it myself.

	Johnny