Article 2958 of vmsnet.pdp-11: Path: cs.utk.edu!emory!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!almach.caltech.edu!shoppa From: shoppa@almach.caltech.edu (Timothy D. Shoppa x4256) Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11,alt.sys.pdp11 Subject: Re: pdp-11 ftp sites Followup-To: vmsnet.pdp-11,alt.sys.pdp11 Date: 14 Aug 1994 12:51 PST Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 34 Distribution: world Message-ID: <14AUG199412510136@almach.caltech.edu> References: <11AUG199416512660@almach.caltech.edu> <32jqev$8rv@news1.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: almach.caltech.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 In article <32jqev$8rv@news1.digex.net>, tdarcos@access1.digex.net (Paul Robinson) writes... >If someone in the Los Angeles Area has the ability to dial this number >locally, Billy Yodelman runs a BBS that has a ton of PDP-11 stuff. I >got the source to the NBS Pascal compiler from him, unfortunately I can't >afford to call his number long distance: > >1 310 837 0892 > >The account number to get a guest account is "1000" and >the guest password is "moving_target" if I remember correctly. > > Yes, Billy Yodelman's BBS (running on top of TSX-11) is a very nice system, with lots of software available. We worked for about a week to transfer most of the files on his system to the anonymous ftp site sunsite.unc.edu. The DECUS tapes ended up in the directory pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rt/decus and the miscellaneous stuff (including NBS Pascal) is in pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rt/billy. In the transfer, I "unpacked" the RT-11 logical disks - i.e. the files originally in the logical disk NBSPAS.DSK ended up in a directory called nbspas_dsk. I wrote some FORTRAN code to aid in the unpacking process; it's nothing fancy, but if anyone is interested in it, I'll e-mail a copy. The FORTRAN code traversed all the logical disks (including nested ones), unpacking files into a directory tree. The code has a lot of VMS-isms (in particular, it LIB$SPAWNs copies of itself to traverse the directory tree), but you could probably get it to work on a Unix machine. Tim. (shoppa@altair.krl.caltech.edu)