[HECnet] VMS FTP server?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-01-08 04:47, Sampsa Laine wrote:

On 8 Jan 2015, at 05:43, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:


A different question is how to deal with binary file transfers to (for example) Unix systems. I have some different options there as well, but I haven't figured one out yet that does the right thing under all circumstances.


How about writing an archiver that produces a simple binary file as output but retains all the RSX specific stuff within the archive, sort of like ZIP's -V   option on VMS and then using something like Kermit over say Telnet to transfer those files around?

That is already sortof existing. You can use LBR to stuff any files into a library, and then I've written something similar to uuencode/uudecode that can process any file, creating a text file, which is the only universal file format. :-)

I'm sure there must be a Kermit port for RSX-11 out there somewhere..

Of course. But Kermit isn't exactly efficient. Not to mention that you cannot, on an RSX system, do kermit over telnet...

	Johnny