14 Jan
2015
14 Jan
'15
2:21 p.m.
If you happen to have an RSX system which you are
conneting from,
you can also try getting the BQTCP.TAP tape image. Such an image
will not transport cleanly to a non-RSX system, however.
I'm curious: why
wouldn't it? [...] Essentially any binary file under RSX cannot be
transferred over FTP,
[...]
Sounds to me as though the truth is more like, cannot be transferred to
or from typical "everything is a bag of bytes" Unix-mindset FTP
implementations. Unless there's something particularly arcane you
haven't hinted at, I don't see anything that would prevent transferring
them over standard FTP, given a server and client that actually
understand that FTP is more than a bag-of-bytes transfer tool.
I'm
tempted to pick up the code just to read it over, as I'm sure
there's a lot I could learn from it, but I doubt I'll have the
leisure to indulge that inclination anytime soon. :-(
It will take a lot of time
to browse through the thing. The basic
ARP, IP, UDP, TCP, and a couple of tools alone are about 500K of
MACRO-11.