by david
24. March 2011 22:30
After a bit of a struggle I have gotten Kermit to happily transfer files between Windows 7 and my PDP-11. On Windows, I'm using Kermit-95. Currently, I use the Console version rather than the GUI one, it seems more in keeping with my PDP.
On the PDP-11, I've installed the latest version of Kermit-11, which I got from here. There are several flavours of Kermit-11, I'm using KRTTSX.SAV (Kermit-11 3.63 for RT-11XB/XM/ZB/ZM and TSX+).
I think that one of my problems was the Line Time Clock. I thought that I had the LTC switched on, but I may have gotten the DIP switch the wrong way round. Since I flipped the LTC DIP switch the other way round things have started to work.
This is what I'm entering on the PC to make it work:
set port com2
set line com2
set speed 9600
set flow xon/xoff
set carrier-watch off
set attributes off
robust
connect
...and here are the Kermit commands I'm entering on the PDP, once Kermit-11 is running:
set file bin
set line tt:
set attributes off
server
After that, I can use the GET and SEND commands on the PC to transfer files.