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Writing to Floppy Em in XENIX

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8088mph:
I tried a few things. Writing to a real floppy works fine. I tried writing the tarball to the Floppy Emu using dd and still had problems. Then I booted BLU, read from the real floppy, and wrote to Floppy Emu and to serial. The copy I wrote to the Floppy Emu still had problems. Once I copied the image I transferred over serial to the Floppy Emu, it worked fine reading from the Floppy Emu. There is some problem in writing XENIX disks. In all of the problematic cases, what I saw was the files were still the same size but occasionally had 512 byte segments of the files replaced by all 0 bytes (NULL characters) when written using the Floppy Emu.

I attached the files I created.
kermit.dc42.gz is a gzipped floppy image of kermit binary, extracts to ./usr/bin/kermit
kermit_src.dc42.gz is a gzipped floppy image of kermit source code including my modifications and a Makefile as well as the binary, extracts to ./kermit/
kermit_src.tar.gz is a gzipped tarball of the source code and binary as individual files

8088mph:

--- Quote from: jamesdenton on April 09, 2020, 07:19:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: 8088mph on April 06, 2020, 09:08:21 pm ---I wanted to use Lisa XENIX as a terminal emulator to a Linux PC so I made a couple changes to the Kermit source code and compiled it on XENIX.

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Off-topic, but...

Which version of Kermit did you end up using?

I posted two different versions of the source code that I know will compile on UniPlus. I am not sure about XENIX.

https://github.com/arcanebyte/uniplus/tree/master/kermit

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I am using Kermit 3.0 http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/archives/uxk300.tar.gz

I found it here http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/archive.html

Should I give UniPlus a try? Are there any advantages over XENIX?

rayarachelian:

--- Quote from: 8088mph on April 09, 2020, 07:54:55 pm ---
Should I give UniPlus a try? Are there any advantages over XENIX?

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Well, you won't have lyrics/multiplan but it is a fun alternative Unix, it's based on real Unix System 3 (I think) source, and A/UX was built from it. I wouldn't say there's specifically an advantage, it's just yet another flavor.

For both of these you'll want at least two ProFile drives or at least a Widget as they like lots of disk space. If you're on an X/Profile, that's the best way to go.

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