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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-12-31 kl. 02:20, skrev 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.
> 

I notice that no one so far have mentioned that tool called VMS_SHARE.
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v10/vms_share/

That routine takes any binary VMS file and encodes it as a command
file that includes a TPU script that recreates the origina file
on any VMS system.

I remember using that format to get specific packages into some
VMS system by simply pasting the VMS_SHARE file into the console
where the CREATE command is saving it. Then just run @run it...

The "problem" is of course that you must either alredy have the
VMS_SHARE files available, or ask someone to create them on another
VMS system...