Subject: Re: Netbooting 11/7xx (DEUNA/DELUA)
To: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/19/2001 01:02:25
i was always a fan of kermit, though telix was a great one back in the 
BBS days.. kermit also does the kind of text ul/dl youre looking for, 
basically just cats a file onto the line. you could in a pinch also just
cat a file onto the line, too... :) 

isildur

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Brian Chase wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:
> 
> > I'd say your best bet would be to download the boot loader to the iron
> > using a PlastiC based terminal program which does text download. I'm
> > racking my brain, but I can't remember for sure which one I've used
> > before (Procomm?). It would do programmable delays after newlines, and
> > also scripting (send line, wait for prompt, loop)
> 
> Under MS-DOS, Procomm was one that had nice features... but I much
> preferred Telix.  (Minicom is pretty much a clone of Telix, though I'm
> not sure it supports anything like Telix's salt scripts).
> 
> -brian.
> 
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