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From: mjm@hpqtdla.HP.COM (Murdo McKissock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Old HP Conversion Woes
Message-ID: <560001@hpqtdla.HP.COM>
Date: 12 May 88 10:01:16 GMT
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Organization: HP, Queensferry Telecomms (UK)
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> 	Help!  I am faced with the following problem... I am helping
>     replace a HP-1000 (running RTE VI I believe) with newer equipment,
>     and need to save some binary data (read alot of binary data).  The
>     HP has no way of doing such transfer that I am aware of, and only
>     a Fortran compiler...
> 
>     My thought was to find source code for Kermit in Fortran and thereby
>     be able to move this data to MS-DOS machines.  Anybody know of a 
>     source (anonymous FTP preferred!) for Kermit in (HP) Fortran?

There is a version of Kermit for the HP1000 running RTE-6 or RTE-A.  It's
written in FORTRAN 77 and Assembler.  You can get it from:

KERMIT Distribution
Columbia University Center for Computing Activities
612 West 115th Street
New York, NY 10025

They have an online distribution service (sorry I don't have the details), 
and will send the sources for all known Kermit versions on tape, at a cost.

A better alternative may be to use the RTE utility "TF".  This will write 
tapes compatible with UNIX tar (you need to use a couple of options
when writing files, one to force compatibility with UNIX and one to say
it's a binary file).  Works with standard magnetic tape, also with 
tape cartridges.  You do still have the manuals for the 1000 ... ?