3 Feb
2014
3 Feb
'14
11:07 a.m.
There appear to be a few files that are corrupted in
the middle of
the disk. Vtserver echoes some kind of symbol to the PC console, then
an "r" each time the data is actually sent to the PDP-11.
In the middle of the transfer, I see on the PC display
a section of
100K blocks, always from"6600K sent" to "6800K sent" that looks very
strange and not like all the other sections from the beginning
through 9500K with a fairly regular pattern. Vtserver starts echoing
long strings of "heart" characters to the PC console, often
terminated with "e" which appears to be their code for an error, and
takes an extremely long time between writes to the RL02. Then the
normal display and speed resumes.
Charles,
The heart would represent a control-c in the usual PC code page. You
really shouldn't see that printed on the PC screen, it's received
through the serial port, and is the command byte for a block read
command. The fact that you are seeing it suggests there's something
odd about your vtserver binaries.
De