[TUHS] question about SIMH tapes

[TUHS] question about SIMH tapes

[Kenneth Stailey]

Hi,

Harti's p11 comes with mktape which when given a control file will turn a set
of files into a tape image.  Is there anything like this for SIMH PDP-11?

Thanks,
Ken


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[TUHS] question about SIMH tapes

[Andru Luvisi]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Harti's p11 comes with mktape which when given a control file will turn a set
> of files into a tape image.  Is there anything like this for SIMH PDP-11?

Check out the Perl scripts tapadd.pl, tapcat.pl, and mkdisttap.pl in
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Boot_Images/2.11_on_Simh/211bsd.tar.gz

For details of the tape format, search for "Magnetic Tapes" in
simh_doc.txt.

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[TUHS] question about SIMH tapes

[Akito Fujita]

From: Andru Luvisi <luvisi@andru.sonoma.edu>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] question about SIMH tapes
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:11:33 -0700 (PDT)

> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Harti's p11 comes with mktape which when given a control file will turn a set
> > of files into a tape image.  Is there anything like this for SIMH PDP-11?
> 
> Check out the Perl scripts tapadd.pl, tapcat.pl, and mkdisttap.pl in
> http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Boot_Images/2.11_on_Simh/211bsd.tar.gz
> 
> For details of the tape format, search for "Magnetic Tapes" in
> simh_doc.txt.

You can see "SIMH Magtape Representation and Handling" also.
(http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/simh_magtape.pdf)


- Akito

[TUHS] question about SIMH tapes

[Kenneth Stailey]

Hi Wolfgang,

By default your software is copyright under the Berne treaty.

If you indend to make this public-domain please add a comment indicating that
this is so.

Thanks,
Ken

--- Wolfgang Helbig <helbig at Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> wrote:
> Just to keep it Unix-like, I wrote enblock, which takes a file in stdin
> a produces a tape file on stdout in SIMH-format. It takes one option,
> the block size, which defaults to 512. It writes an end of file mark
> after each run. To write more than one file on one tape, type
> 
>  	enblock <file1 >tape ; enblock <file2 >>tape
> to write an end of tape mark, type
> 	enblock </dev/null >>tape
> 
> You'll find enblock.c at
> 	http://www.ba-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/v6/enblock.c
> 	
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >Harti's p11 comes with mktape which when given a control file will turn a
> set
> >of files into a tape image.  Is there anything like this for SIMH PDP-11?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ken
> 
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[TUHS] question about SIMH tapes

[Wolfgang Helbig]

Just to keep it Unix-like, I wrote enblock, which takes a file in stdin
a produces a tape file on stdout in SIMH-format. It takes one option,
the block size, which defaults to 512. It writes an end of file mark
after each run. To write more than one file on one tape, type

 	enblock <file1 >tape ; enblock <file2 >>tape
to write an end of tape mark, type
	enblock </dev/null >>tape

You'll find enblock.c at
	http://www.ba-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/v6/enblock.c
	

>Hi,
>
>Harti's p11 comes with mktape which when given a control file will turn a set
>of files into a tape image.  Is there anything like this for SIMH PDP-11?
>
>Thanks,
>Ken