30 Jan
2015
30 Jan
'15
11:11 a.m.
As I mentioned some hours ago, compiling it on a real unix machine instead
of the Mac cleared up the problem and now it's working, as you put it,
"delightfully."
It literally does delight me to just watch it run and blink the lights,
etc. :)
Honestly, my first inclination is that there was a problem with the cheap
usb-to-serial dongle I was using mangling characters. I've seen it
senselessly corrupt output from the pdp11 before.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:
I too have used VTserver many times. It's a
delightfully clever tool. And
don't forget, that for PDP-8 there's David Gesswein's dumprest, which also
works very well. I've used VTserver to build RK05s for Unix 6th Ed. on my
11/34 and dumprest to build RK05s for OS/8 on LCM's 8/e.
Jacob, I don't know why it would have hung for you unless the copy program
is buggered. I used VTserver without modification and without problem. --
Ian
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have used it quite a bit, and it always
"just worked" for me. Wonderful
piece of software. I should do something similar for the 21MX :)
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jacob
Ritorto
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:34 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Warren's 'VTserver'
Has anyone used this software
ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/pub/PDP-11/Vtserver/README against a real pdp11?
I'm trying to use it to install a disk image on my 11/34, now, and after
keying in the initial code, it appears to happily upload the first file
(standalone 'copy') quite successfully, but then hangs. Since Warren has
no real pdp11s, I'm wondering if the emulators he used whilst authoring
this VTserver do something different than a real '11 that keeps the
program
from proceeding.
thx
jake
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS
Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School
University of Washington
An optimist sees a glass half full. A pessimist sees it half empty. An
engineer sees it twice as large as it needs to be.