14 Jan
2015
14 Jan
'15
2:01 p.m.
On 2015-01-14 17:10, Mouse wrote:
Thanks.
Nah. The problem is simpler than that. It all relates to the fact that
files under RSX are very different than under Unix. File in RSX are
organized in different ways. And virtual tapes are of variable sized
records. So, how would I communicate that across FTP? And the actual
length of those records?
Essentially any binary file under RSX cannot be transferred over FTP,
with a couple of exceptions:
Fixed length record files under RSX will transfer all the content of the
file over the link. You will of course not know what the record length
was, but that you could reconstruct after the fact.
Binary files where the record lengths are irrelevant. These will also
work just fine.
When the FTP client under RSX talks to another RSX machines FTP server,
it detects this fact, and do transfer a bunch of metadata about the file
in addition to the actual file content, so that all stuff gets preserved.
This also means that you can FTP indexed files over FTP between RSX
machines. I have a plan to extend this to also work against VMS
machines. I just need a little more time.
It will take a lot of time to browse through the thing. The basic ARP,
IP, UDP, TCP, and a couple of tools alone are about 500K of MACRO-11.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Well, it's
been a long time project, but I'm happy to finally
announce a more public initial release of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS.
This is very impressive. Even for bqt@, this is very impressive. If you happen
to have an RSX system which you are conneting from, you
can also try getting the BQTCP.TAP tape image. Such an image will not
transport cleanly to a non-RSX system, however.
I'm curious: why wouldn't it? Do the FTP client and server recognize
one another, or is it more "will not transport cleanly to a system not
implementing $OBSCURE_FTP_FEATURE", or what? I hope some
people will find this useful/amusing. :-)
I won't find it useful personally, at least not in the near future; I'm
not running RSX. And I wouldn't call it amusing. I'd call it other
things, such as "impressive" or "awesome". I'm tempted to pick
up the
code just to read it over, as I'm sure there's a lot I could learn from
it, but I doubt I'll have the leisure to indulge that inclination
anytime soon. :-(