Transfer of Files From RSX-11 (fwd)

I wrote this gentleman off-list (as the S/N ratio is rather out of hand just now) and asked some basic questions... mainly trying to find if he had just a disk, or the who thing. Follows is my reply to his response; if anyone can jump in with more or better info for him, please respond directly and cc: the list. The meta question is: what's he gonna do with the system once the data is mined?? Cheers John ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:47:25 -0500 (EST) From: John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> To: nk badoni <badoni_nk(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Transfer of Files From RSX-11 On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, nk badoni wrote: Ah... this makes the process *much* easier! A bit of info now would be: what is the model of your DEC system? (ie PDP 11/23, VAX 11/750, PRO350... etc) Hmmm... a lot of RSX systems had Kermit as part of the Distribution Kit.. you can try: MCR> DIR kerm*.*,* but if your disk is big and you CPU slow, this can take upto an hour to complete. OR, you can use a Terminal Emulating program on your Wintel machine (I use VanDyke's CRT on my IBM Thinkpad running Win2K). Then, find the file(s) you want, and use the RSK 'type' command to list them to the port you are attached (logically and physically) to. Use your terminal program's "logging" or "screen capture" function, and... there you are! The files are safe on your PC. (This assumes you have a multi-port set of serial terminal connectors attached to the computer. This procedure can also be done using the PC terminal emulator attached to the DEC system console port. The object is to list the files as an ASCII stream and capture that listing on the PC's HD.

This will work with any storage media on your DEC computer, HDs or Floppies, by the way. Please write to the classiccmp list during this process, and we will all try to help out as much as possible. I will also forward this correspondence to the List.