[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-06-15 kl. 09:15, skrev Terry Kennedy:

> It might be the best thing since sliced bread, but since they apparently
> have a badly-broken SFTP server that dies after successful logins
> there's no way to tell.
> 

Removed Terrys failed FTP sessions...

I have no idea why you had those issues as you show. I use Putty
SFTP and have been downloading a lot of VSI packages such as the
Alpha CD container files and 10s of Alpha patches. Never had
any issues with the SFTP sessions as such.

I do note that VSI has issued some information about service
downtime on their FTP services:

 > The VSI FTP server will be down for 2 software upgrades.
 > Friday, June 14, 5:00PM Eastern US time – 7:00PM Eastern Time
 > Saturday June 15,  4:00PM to 6:00PM.
 > Best Regards,


I got a message about changed key that I just accepted (and removed
from my session copy below). Didn't got that yesterday.

Apart from that, it works just fine. A little slower than expected
with the bandwidth available at my side. Took approx 30 min, should
had been 2-3 min with my bandwidth

Using Putty SFTP on my Win10 laptop (over Wifi):


psftp> open vsiftp.vmssoftware.com

login as: VSIPUBLIC

  This is VMS Software, Inc. OpenVMS (TM) IA64 Operating System, V8.4-2L1

VSIPUBLIC at vsiftp.vmssoftware.com's password:
Remote working directory is /disk$public01/VSI$PUBLIC

psftp> cd student_kit
Remote directory is now /disk$public01/VSI$PUBLIC/STUDENT_KIT

psftp> ls
Listing directory /disk$public01/VSI$PUBLIC/STUDENT_KIT
dr--r-----   1 VSIPUBLIC VSI$PUBLIC      512 May 23 09:09 ARCHIVE
-r--r--r--   1 VSIPUBLIC VSI$PUBLIC 470321152 May 23 09:01
VSIOpenVMSStudentPackage.exe
-r--r--r--   1 VSIPUBLIC VSI$PUBLIC      158 Feb 15 13:05 instructions.txt

psftp> lcd d:\dist\vsi\student_kit
New local directory is d:\dist\vsi\student_kit

psftp> get VSIOpenVMSStudentPackage.exe
remote:/disk$public01/VSI$PUBLIC/STUDENT_KIT/VSIOPENVMSSTUDENTPACKAGE.EXE
=> local:VSIOpenVMSStudentPackage.exe
psftp> quit (approx 30 min later...)

d:\dist\VSI\STUDENT_KIT>dir
  Volume in drive D is DATA
  Volume Serial Number is 5636-27A5

  Directory of d:\dist\VSI\STUDENT_KIT

2019-06-15  10:52    <DIR>          .
2019-06-15  10:52    <DIR>          ..
2019-06-15  11:22       470 321 152 VSIOpenVMSStudentPackage.exe
                1 File(s)    470 321 152 bytes
                2 Dir(s)  194 025 369 600 bytes free

d:\dist\VSI\STUDENT_KIT>

Same byte count at least...