[HECnet] Reading RT11 files under Windows or Linux

[Paul Koning]

> On Apr 21, 2021, at 12:08 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-04-21 17:06, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>   Is there a Windows utility that will read and write RT11 files from TU58, RX01/2 or RL01/2 images?  A Linux utility would be OK too.
>>   I know about PUTR, but it doesn’t appear that it can run under any recent (e.g. 64 bit) version of Windows..
>>   And EXCHANGE on VMS works fine, but getting the image files on VMS in the first place is a hassle.
> 
> By the way... May I suggest RSX? :-)
> Getting the image in to RSX should be easy (ftp things in block mode, or ping me and I can do that for you).
> 
> Then you can play with the image using the virtual device drivers, and FLX.
> 
>  Johnny

RSTS can also read RT11 file structure (with a tool called FIT, if I remember right.  Or FLINT, one or the other).  Then you can get the resulting RSTS file off with the FLX utility.

	paul