22 Dec
1998
22 Dec
'98
10:42 a.m.
Hmmm. If you can telnet into the machine have you tried ftping?
Otherwise the only solution will be to ask some kind soul with tk50s
to put kermit on a tk50 for you and mail it to you, I guess.
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.
Ok, here's the scoop. I actually have a MicroVax II on the net kinda
sorta via a terminal server. But my problem is that I've got no way to
get binaries on and off the machine. I have no file transfer capabilities
on it as far as I can tell. Usually such machines will have kermit when
you get them as freebies but this one was used in a custom application etc.
How exactly is it conencted? Via serial port to the terminal server? If this
is the case, FTP is pretty much out of the question. You're back to the tk50
My understanding is that you can take any file,
binary, text, etc and put
it in a share archive (IE .shar) extension, transfer it to the machine in
text mode (basically cut and paste in a terminal window or using an ASCII
transfer) and simply execute it using a @.
never heard of this being done or working. Since terminals tend to like to
monkey with 8th bit stuff I'd not expect it to work, personally.
Alternatively, everyplace I look kermit seems to be in
a zip. This is
fine but I can't get zip onto the vax nor the zip archive itself.
I also have no compilers so I can't put source on there and compile
except for Macro-32. Does the kermit binary(ies) exist someplace via ftp
in a .shar archive?
Maybe I'm being completely ignorant here. Because I can reliably telnet
to the machine I'd like to clean it up, make a backup image on tape,
install some common utilities and make it available to folks on the list
via telnet. Is there some easier way to get binaries onto the machine?
Without having them on tape already, etc.
Thanks...
Anthony Clifton, kc0cue
Not sure I've helped any. I imagine Tim and Allison will have more helpful
replies. :)
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Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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