A little difficult: investigate Xenix and slattach problem
I know Xenix is a little outdated, and is dangerous to use on network.
But this is a virtual machine, and I like to play retrocomputing sometime.
The question is..why ftp over slip doesn't work?
I've set this Xenix vm on libvirt
Xenix works only with 3com network cards unavaliable on qemu
So I use the old slip protocol
On linux I make this
On xenix side
Now the problem coming!
Rlogin work?
Yes
And ping?
Yes from internal to external
And ftp?
If I transfer a text file empty work perfect.
But when I try binary...
I don't know if this is a big issue or not, but I'm having difficulties. I apoligize for the upcoming essay :o.
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Hey all,
At my work we have an installation that runs on a Xenix System V coupled with a PLC.
Now I have to take a backup of the complete Hard Disk from the PC but have no idea how to manage this.
Could someone help me and tell me which steps I have to take.
Thanx. (8 Replies)
Hello,
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This is how I declare the function :
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Inside main, I call it like this:
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Sir,
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Randomly receive the following message:
"Can not open line tty1a device busy error 16"
and
"/etc/getty/t60 tty1a"
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