Hello,
I have an HP 382 that I use to control an HP 3048A system. Currently, I
have a disk image containing an HP BASIC 6.3 installation that I serve
to the 382 with HPDrive. This works, but there are two main pain points:
1. Transferring files between the 382 and my modern Linux machine is
cumbersome. HPDir allows me to extract files from a disk image
containing an LIF filesystem. However, my disk image is formatted for
HFS. I could also serve an LIF-formatted drive and copy between them,
but still this is a bit painful (I won't go into the details, but happy
to explain further if someone wants).
2. Using my 382 system requires pulling out a VGA monitor and keyboard
that I only use for this purpose. I'd much prefer to run everything from
my Linux machine.
I expect that if I used HP-UX 9 instead of HP BASIC I could easily
resolve the first problem. HP-UX supports FTP that should make file
transfer over a network simple.
I'm curious about using HP VUE to also resolve the second annoyance. HP
VUE targets the X window system and allows remote connection over a
network. So, in principle this is simple, but with the 30 year time
gap between an implementation of the X window system for HP-UX 9 and the
one running on my current Linux machine, I expect there will be a few
challenges to sort out.
There's an old forum thread that goes into some of the difficulties that
arise. See
and linked threads.
Does anyone use this workflow or something similar? If so, would you be
able to provide any pointers about getting it running? I'm going to
investigate this myself either way, but if someone has already addressed
some of the challenges that pop up, I'd prefer not to duplicate the
troubleshooting time.
Thanks!
Matt
