[Info-vax] how to copy ftp-zip-files from linux into openvms/vax 7.3? is there any tool to handle an mua[0-9]:?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-01-03 02:02:20 +0000, henry.seib at gmail.com said:

> I try to copy my ftp-stuff from hobbyist-server from my ubuntu-linux 
> into my openvms/vax/7.3 ... is there any utility to support mua's or 
> cdrom's with the zip-files? and how I got the zip-file into my openvms?

Since you're pretty clearly looking for help getting the emulator 
networking working, which specific VAX emulator are you using, and 
which host operating system (Linux?  Windows?  macOS?  OpenVMS?  
Other?) is being used to host the emulator?

If it's simh that you're using as a VAX emulator, the version of simh 
that's available at github does have some pre-built binaries around 
that do have support for tun/tap networking and related bits for 
Windows, and there's an extensive archive of discussions of simh and 
getting simh networking working on various Linux systems in the simh 
mailing list archives, and there are directions (referenced below) for 
getting the emulator network emulation working and connected with the 
host networking.   simh can also mount disk images directly, so an 
image of some ODS-2 media can be configured and mounted via the simh 
configuration file.

Once the emulator networking is working, TCPIP$CONFIG is the tool used 
to configure IP networking in the OpenVMS VAX V7.3 environment.  That's 
where you can enable and start the FTP client and FTP server, among 
other network services that are available.  TCP/IP Services is 
separately installed package, but the installation kit part of the same 
distribution kit as OpenVMS VAX installation itself.

If it's a real VAX, get the networking working as described above (and 
in the OpenVMS VAX and TCP/IP Services installation materials) and 
start up and use FTP to transfer the files as needed.

https://github.com/simh/simh
http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/0readme_ethernet.txt

If it's some other emulator, you'll want to provide some additional 
details on the particular emulator and the environment.




Quoting from the simh web site:

Problem Reports

If you find problems or have suggestions relating to any simulator or 
the simh package as a whole, please report these using the github 
"Issue" interface at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues.
Problem reports should contain;
	•	a description of the problem
	•	the simulator you experience the problem with
	•	your host platform (and OS version)
	•	how you built the simulator or that you're using prebuilt binaries
	•	the simulator build description should include the output produced 
by while building the simulator
	•	the output of SHOW VERSION while running the simulator which is 
having an issue
	•	the simulator configuration file (or commands) which were used when 
the problem occurred.

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