I haven't worked too much with 4.3BSD but I have worked extensively with Ultrix 1 which is basically 4.2. If you can get a relatively recent gmake and gcc 2 going, that should be enough to get bash 2 built, and from there you can use that to run configure scripts with LIBS=-liberty which should be enough for most smaller programs. Perl 5.6 should be possible. If you really want a web server, maybe try thttpd. MySQL/PHP/WebDAV seem like a pipe dream, 4.3BSD doesn't have dynamic loading and even if you can get around that you're still going to run into memory limitations in a big hurry.

Personally, I just set up rsh so that I can use rcp to move files in and out. Setting up rsh on a modern OS can be a pain but it's still much simpler than most of what is being proposed here. I find that life is much easier if you look at what tools are available in the historic OS and find a way to use those with a modern OS, rather than the other way around.

Oh, and I'm not sure what the 4.3BSD default is, but make sure your interface isn't using trailers. They don't play well with modern networking.

-Henry

On 9 April 2017 at 23:56, <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:

I have a pre-built Lynx for 4.3 UWISC here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Uwisc/lynx-2.8.2.binary.BSD-4.3.Uwisc.tap.bz2/download

I recall 4.3 RENO being incredibly unstable, and having major issues compiling lynx as some of the files are pretty big. Basically I found 4.3 UWisc hiding in a directory on TUHS, and though I’d see what it was and I found it to be a FAR FAR superior thing to not only RENO, but stock 4.3 .

Speaking of AberMUD, I have version 2 built for pretty much everything....

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Uwisc/AberMUD-2.BSD-4.3.Uwisc.tap.bz2/download

I need to troll the old usenet stuff for some sz/rz and an old httpd, maybe Apache 1.3 may work as well, I mean I did get it to actually build for NT 3. 1 of all things, so a BSD shouldn’t be such a long shot. Maybe add in a perl, and we can have a semi useful gateway.... Although I guess adding in MySQL and going full *AMP may be a bit crazy, but it could be useful.. And maybe it’d open up WebDAV for shuffling files around.

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

From: William Pechter
Sent: Monday, 10 April 2017 11:33 AM
To: Mary Ann Horton; Warren Toomey
Cc: TUHS main list
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 4.3 Wisc file transfer

Should work fine with the 4.3 template tape... But I would save the original kernel
just in case

I moved binaries from the older 4.3 to Reno and uWisc without problems.

Ftp works. I wish I could get lynx and wet to build.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org>
To: Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Sun, 09 Apr 2017 20:05
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 4.3 Wisc file transfer

On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 10:14:06AM -0700, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> What's the best way to transfer files in and out of the simh 4.3BSD Wisc
> version? I can do it with tape files, but it seems like FTP or ssh or NFS
> ought to be possible, and none is behaving at first blush.

I don't know how close 4.3UWisc is (in terms of config files etc.) to
valilla 4.3BSD, but you might be able to untar the 4bsd-uucp customisation
tarball over the top of 4.3UWisc. That would get you the ftp binary with
PASV on by default, and the de0 interface set up with a working NAT IP
address. Then you could set up a local ftp server on another box.

I'm nearly out the door for a week's break else I'd try it out.
Cheers, Warren