* [TUHS] Re: Unix V7 enblock.c
@ 2023-03-01 12:32 Noel Chiappa
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From: Noel Chiappa @ 2023-03-01 12:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs; +Cc: jnc
> From: Michael Huff
> All of the simh vax tutorials on Gunkies still give instructions to turn
> all of the tar files (plus things like miniroot) into a single tap file
> for installation.
If those are out-of-date, you/someone should get a CHWiki account and
update them! :-)
Documentation skew from code has always been a problem...
Noel
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* [TUHS] Unix V7 enblock.c
@ 2023-02-28 15:45 KenUnix
2023-02-28 15:51 ` [TUHS] " Henry Bent
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From: KenUnix @ 2023-02-28 15:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: UNIX TUHS Group
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Morning,
I am using enblock to create tap files from tar files.
Was a program ever written to convert tap files to tar files or
a Linux program that could read tap files?
I also see that writing to a tap file from Unix the size increases
when writing multiple files however when writing 1 file to the tap
file "tar cv0 ..." the tap file still remains at its larger size from the
previous larger writes. Is this what is expected?
Thanks,
Ken
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WWL 📚
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* [TUHS] Re: Unix V7 enblock.c
2023-02-28 15:45 [TUHS] " KenUnix
@ 2023-02-28 15:51 ` Henry Bent
2023-03-01 11:45 ` Michael Huff
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From: Henry Bent @ 2023-02-28 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: UNIX TUHS Group
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 10:45, KenUnix <ken.unix.guy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Morning,
>
> I am using enblock to create tap files from tar files.
>
> Was a program ever written to convert tap files to tar files or
> a Linux program that could read tap files?
>
> I also see that writing to a tap file from Unix the size increases
> when writing multiple files however when writing 1 file to the tap
> file "tar cv0 ..." the tap file still remains at its larger size from the
> previous larger writes. Is this what is expected?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
Hi Ken,
Questions like this are probably better suited to the SIMH mailing list.
https://groups.io/g/simh
That being said, is there a reason you're bothering to convert to tap
format? Modern versions of SIMH can do "attach [file] -f tar [device]" to
directly attach a tar file to a tape device.
-Henry
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* [TUHS] Re: Unix V7 enblock.c
2023-02-28 15:51 ` [TUHS] " Henry Bent
@ 2023-03-01 11:45 ` Michael Huff
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From: Michael Huff @ 2023-03-01 11:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: henry.r.bent; +Cc: UNIX TUHS Group
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 6:51 AM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 10:45, KenUnix <ken.unix.guy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Morning,
>>
>> I am using enblock to create tap files from tar files.
>>
>> Was a program ever written to convert tap files to tar files or
>> a Linux program that could read tap files?
>>
>> I also see that writing to a tap file from Unix the size increases
>> when writing multiple files however when writing 1 file to the tap
>> file "tar cv0 ..." the tap file still remains at its larger size from the
>> previous larger writes. Is this what is expected?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken
>>
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> Questions like this are probably better suited to the SIMH mailing list.
> https://groups.io/g/simh
>
> That being said, is there a reason you're bothering to convert to tap
> format? Modern versions of SIMH can do "attach [file] -f tar [device]" to
> directly attach a tar file to a tape device.
>
> -Henry
>
Hi, Henry, Ken and TUHS
All of the simh vax tutorials on Gunkies still give instructions to turn
all of the tar files (plus things like miniroot) into a single tap file for
installation. I don't know if that is the reason that Ken wants to do that,
however. If it is, he should look at the mkdisttap.pl utility on those
pages.
Ken, there are a couple of other utilities to convert tar files to opensim
tap files simtools collection, mksimtape and tar2mt here is the link to the
collection: https://github.com/open-simh/simtools/tree/master/converters
If there's a utility to convert tap files to tar files, I'm oblivious to it
-sorry.
-Michael
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