RE: paper tapes: B-5500 CANDE Extended ALGOL program

[Bob Mader <Bob.Mader@digital.com>]

Gary, et al,

Here's an idea... attach the simulator PTR device to a named pipe
(mkfifo). Then the user simply ftp puts to the named pipe and OLD PR:
into the simulator. Ftp puts to a named pipe work great... I think the
trick will be getting the PTR device to "reset" after each EOF.

Bob

	-----Original Message-----
	Aron,

	Good idea.  I think RSTS only supports one PP: device, but I
could probably
	still use that one device.  A command like "put xyz.txt"
followed by
	uu-encoded data up to some ending bracket could be written to
PP:.  That way
	we could use PP: both for getting and putting files.

	IBM's VM/CMS system does exactly this type of crazy stuff with
the virtual
	card punch and card reader.  All e-mail on VM systems is sent as
virtual
	card decks to the user's virtual card reader from the sender's
virtual card
	punch.  (Hey that gives me an idea.  We could create a RSTS
e-mail program
	that sends and receives e-mail and attached files across the
Internet by
	punching and reading virtual paper tapes.  You could then e-mail
your
	BASIC-PLUS programs to your RSTS account and vice versa.   What
a concept
	:-).  Is there anyone out there that understands Linux sendmail
and all its
	crazyness!?!?).

	Gary