18 Feb
2003
18 Feb
'03
4:53 a.m.
Hello John
Thankyou very much for your kind reply.
Yes it is a complete system.
I have checked Kermit in this system but I could not
find this S/W there. Might be my process was wrong.
And if it is there how can I access Kermit(how to find
wheather Kermit is there or not).
Is there any command for Kermit. Please suggest me how
to find wheather Kermit is there or not.
/********
Incase if kermit will not be installed then how can I
transfer the data.
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Basically it is the text data which I want to transfer
to the winnt PC. This system is having 8" floopy drive
& I also wants to transfer files from 8" floopies to
PC.
These files are important for me & I want to make
backup for these files into the another PC having WIN
NT.
Please advice me I will be very thankful to you.
I am in India.
Best regards
Kishore
--- John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> wrote:
Hello Kishore. You do not give enough information
to allow us to be of
much help.
Is this a complete system, or do you just have the
diskdrive itself?
If you have the whole machine, then most likely a
program called 'Kermit'
is installed - you need to also have the Windows
version of Kermit on your
PC, and then connect the serial ports together with
a cable. OR, if you
are lucky enough to have a newer DEC machine with
Ethernet, you can just
hook them up that way.
If you have only the Drive - is it MFM? EDSI?
SCSI?
Is it just data you need? ASCII? HEX? Are there
existing programs that
you would need to execute after transferring? Are
they MACRO11? FORTRAN?
BASIC? Pascal? etc... would you need to run one
of the PDP emulators on
your PC? IS this for commercial use? Are you going
to need to license the
OS (from Mentec)?
Also, where are you? If in the US or Canada, and
you only have the drive
(and the data is important or critical) I would
suggest that you assemble
a DEC system and install the Drive in it, then use
Kermit. If you can't
do that, perhaps you can send the drive to someone
who would install it,
extract the info, and return it to you. Just for
example, I have a
PDP-11/44 system with EDSI drives, 8" floppies, and
a 14" removable-pack
drive. It runs RSX 11M+ V5.03. If possible, you
should know these details
about your Drive, as all of this makes a large
difference in just how to
take the data off.
You should write your message again to the
classiccmp list, and give all
the details you can think of. That way, we can
steer you in the right
direction.
Cheers
John
REF:
>Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:38:58 -0800 (PST)
>From: nk badoni <badoni_nk(a)yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>Subject: Tranfer of Files From RSX-11
>
>Hello
>
>I am Kishore.
>
>Could you please tell me that how can I tranfer the
>files from Winchester Disk having RSX-11/PDP format
>into a PC having Win NT operating system.
>
>Kishore