22 Dec
1998
22 Dec
'98
11:06 a.m.
If you have any programming languages at all on the
machine you could try
writing a uudecode utility and then uuencoding the kermit binary on another
machine, and doing the cut and paste you were talking about. You could
probably write a uudecode in DCL, but it would be slow, ugly, and nasty.
This used to be a common problem, and "shar" (shell archive) was the
common answer. On Unix, it was a simple shell script that you could wrap
source code in. Under VMS, there was a DCL equivalent.
I just looked around for a VMS version of shar, and couldn't find one :-(
I also remember that KERMIT commonly came with a simple boot-strap
program, but I didn't find one of those for VMS either....
If you have a C compiler on the VMS box, I would just try getting the
kermit sources file-by-file onto your system via:
COPY SYS$INPUT file1.c
or whatever the DCL syntax is.
-- Doug