riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (12/03/87)
Does anyone out there know anything about communications on the
HP/1000?
Specifically, there is an HP/1000 running RTE-6 located across the
street from us which we wish to make talk to our AT&T 3B15. The HP
currently has no standard communications software installed on it. The
best proposal the local HP representative can come up with is for the
HP to dump reports to what it thinks is a printer, but which is in fact
an RS232 line with our computer listening on the other end. This
means no handshaking and no error-checking, which gives us the
willies. His only other suggestion was for us to use tape, hardly
cost-effective in the long run. We need to find a solution which is
reliable, robust, and can run automatically on a daily basis with
little or no human intervention.
Does anyone know of any suggestions we should give to our HP rep? Is
there any free or commercial communications software available for the
HP which would also run on the 3B15? We've found one product on the
market which claims it could do the job, namely Blast -- know anything
about it? What about HP's "General Purpose Data Link"? We are Unix
types and have neither the time nor the desire to become HP experts,
but we need to come up with a solution to this.
Please reply by mail to the address below (my home machine doesn't get
this newsgroup). Thanks.
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
--- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Shriners Burns Institute.
--- riddle\@woton.UUCP {ihnp4,harvard}!ut-sally!im4u!woton!riddlesjmz@otter.HP.COM (Stefek Zaba) (12/12/87)
[Summary of Private response, in case that doesn't reach] Use Kermit. This runs on the 1000, and gives error-checking protocol, and comes with command file capability so you can fully automate the transfer. Cheers, Stefek.