[Info-vax] Transferring file to VMS emulated in SIMH

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-29, Henry Crun <mike at rechtman.com> wrote:
> IIRC there was a short(ish) Macro program that could be copy-pasted to a VMS terminal, and which would when run download 
> the Kermit.EXE, all over a serial line. I seem to remember using it circa VMS V5.something.
> Try http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckvins.html, look for Bootstrap perhaps.
>
> But of course I might be wrong entirely...
>

I wonder if it would be possible to send over the Kermit binary a byte
at a time by using a Linux based comms script to drive $ patch/absolute
and thereby use patch to automatically deposit a byte at a time into
the binary. (Does patch/absolute allow you to extend an existing file ?)

If it worked, it would eliminate the need to first transfer a program
to VMS to receive the Kermit binary.

Simon.

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