On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 1:52:27 AM UTC+12, the doctor wrote:

Somehow, at the time, I managed to copy things between linux and rsts/e.

Someone else mentioned Kermit. That will work if you have a terminal port accessible via Telnet in SIMH.

Myself, I have been playing with a prebuilt RSTS/E system with only the console terminal port. (Haven’t figured out how to SYSGEN my own system yet.) But I can transfer files in and out using the paper tape reader and punch. From memory:

* CTRL/E to suspend RSTS and return to the SIMH console prompt
* use “att ptr «filename»” to attach an existing Linux input file to the paper-tape reader
* “c” to resume RSTS execution
* use “PIP «filename» = PR0:” to read in the file. I also successfully used “PIP «filename»/RMS:FB = PR0:” (I think it was) to read in formatted-binary files and convert them to variable-length record format.
* CTRL/E back to SIMH again
* type “det ptr” to detach the input file from the paper-tape reader.
* “c” to resume RSTS execution.

For output, the procedure is similar:
* CTRL/E to suspend RSTS and return to the SIMH console prompt
* use “att ptp «filename»” to attach a Linux output file to the paper-tape punch
* “c” to resume RSTS execution
* use “PIP PP0: = «filename»” to copy a file to the paper-tape punch
* CTRL/E back to SIMH again
* type “det ptp” to close the output file
* “c” to resume RSTS execution.

This worked for small files, I didn’t try anything large. :)

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)