From: utzoo!decvax!cca!obrien@RAND-UNIX@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  downloading to a pdp-11
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4163
Posted: Wed Nov 17 21:55:44 1982
Received: Fri Nov 19 05:49:04 1982

Date: Sunday, 14 Nov 1982 10:48-PST
Yes, we have downline-loading software for our Arpanet
Front End software, and you can contact "nancy at Rand-Unix" for
info on how to get it (cost about $300 dist. fee, I think).
However, you should be aware that for cross-compiling, we just
put up a skeletal version of a PDP-11 file system under something
like "/usr/pdp11stuff", and use v7run (standard with 4.1, sources
under /usr/src/games/compat) to run the PDP-11 C compiler,
assembler, and loader in compat mode.  That stuff isn't
distributed on our tape (licensing, ya know), we just tell you
how to do it...and I've just told you.  It's ridiculously easy.

	Downline load stuff does have to be written oneself,
though, and we provide that.  Ask Nancy about the "Rand Front End
NCP Distribution".