blodtoad@pitt.UUCP (M. Anthony Kapolka 3) (05/09/88)
Help! I am faced with the following problem... I am helping
replace a HP-1000 (running RTE VI I believe) with newer equipment,
and need to save some binary data (read alot of binary data). The
HP has no way of doing such transfer that I am aware of, and only
a Fortran compiler...
My thought was to find source code for Kermit in Fortran and thereby
be able to move this data to MS-DOS machines. Anybody know of a
source (anonymous FTP preferred!) for Kermit in (HP) Fortran?
Anybody have a better way to do this file transfer?
Thanks in advance!!
M. Anthony Kapolka III
kapolka@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu
...{allegra, cadre}!pitt!kapolka
anthony@pittvms.Bitnet
Disclaimer: The HP in question is not owned by the CS dept!mjm@hpqtdla.HP.COM (Murdo McKissock) (05/12/88)
> Help! I am faced with the following problem... I am helping > replace a HP-1000 (running RTE VI I believe) with newer equipment, > and need to save some binary data (read alot of binary data). The > HP has no way of doing such transfer that I am aware of, and only > a Fortran compiler... > > My thought was to find source code for Kermit in Fortran and thereby > be able to move this data to MS-DOS machines. Anybody know of a > source (anonymous FTP preferred!) for Kermit in (HP) Fortran? There is a version of Kermit for the HP1000 running RTE-6 or RTE-A. It's written in FORTRAN 77 and Assembler. You can get it from: KERMIT Distribution Columbia University Center for Computing Activities 612 West 115th Street New York, NY 10025 They have an online distribution service (sorry I don't have the details), and will send the sources for all known Kermit versions on tape, at a cost. A better alternative may be to use the RTE utility "TF". This will write tapes compatible with UNIX tar (you need to use a couple of options when writing files, one to force compatibility with UNIX and one to say it's a binary file). Works with standard magnetic tape, also with tape cartridges. You do still have the manuals for the 1000 ... ?
david@hpiacla.HP.COM (David Brunstein) (05/13/88)
>> Help! I am faced with the following problem... I am helping >> replace a HP-1000 (running RTE VI I believe) with newer equipment, >> and need to save some binary data (read alot of binary data). The >> HP has no way of doing such transfer that I am aware of, and only >> a Fortran compiler... What is your set-up like? Where is the binary data coming from (a program, a disc file, etc.)? Where are you trying to transfer it to? Do you have serial (read MUX or ASYNC) boards, network (read HDLC, etc.) boards, an HP-IB interface, what? What exact verison of RTE VI are you running? You may be helped if you provide some more information. David Brunstein Hewlett Packard IAC ------------------- hplabs!hpda!hpdsla!david
scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) (05/17/88)
You can use TF to write a tape of binary data, but you need to be aware
of a some things....
-The CO command option to write tar(1) tapes only converts type 4
files. The conversion done is to remove the record length
descriptors that are in the file and stick newlines between all the
records which can be a problem with binary data files unless you
want record separators.
-Other files will get put on the tape in the same form that they
exist on the disc. If you use type 3 files (variable length
records), the record length descriptors make it to the tape. It's
not too hard to decode them after tar(1) reads them, though. Since
there are no record separators, you get a stream of bytes. That is
frequently what binary data files are anyway.
Scott Blachowicz
UUCP: ...!hpubvwa!grlab!scott