I've been playing with it^UI've been *testing* it all afternoon (while
waiting for my real work to do thing :) and it is great. It does not
support ethernet, but if you put in the .INI file the lines;

set DHV_1 LINE[0]="link localhost:5000"
set DHV_1 LINE[1]="link localhost:5001"
set DHV_1 LINE[2]="link localhost:5002"
set DHV_1 LINE[3]="link localhost:5003"
set DHV_1 LINE[4]="link localhost:5004"
set DHV_1 LINE[5]="link localhost:5005"
set DHV_1 LINE[6]="link localhost:5006"

you can then telnet to your local host on one of those ports. You then
come in on a TXA port. I have not yet tested it, but I should be able
to get KERMIT on the box and then I'll be laughing. FTP (or KERMIT) a
.ZIP file down to the PC, then KERMIT it over to the Charon system. It
has been a long time since I looked at the KERMIT client for VMS but I
may even be able to KERMIT from VMS to the Charon VAX directly, I
understand from a recent post by Frank da Cruz that KERMIT can copy
entire directory trees if you go from VMS to VMS.

You may even be able to write a CD (or other removable media) from VMS
and mount it on the PC, then use the CD2image program to convert it to
an image. I have been able to read a couple of CD's this way.

A word of caution though. I tried from my local PC doing a telnet
(using PowerTerm) to 127.0.0.1 port 5000, that caused Charon VAX to do
a Dr. Watson, telneting to my DNS name (from either my PC or a VAX)
works fine. I haven't played^H^H^H^H^H^Htested enough to see if I can
replicate the problem, or if it was something else getting in the way.

Give it a shot, the download is only 1.6MB or so. During the install
it creates a RD54 image for you but it is empty so you don't have the
overhead of downloading all of VMS like the demo did.