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From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: UNIX TUHS Group <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix V7 enblock.c
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 10:51:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBcuRYRKmiK95wpRSWZTxdxS=QgcbfqAZDZ5o_bqrp_HaA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJXSPs-Md_nnbgDch-dXX-hV-fWiSWqFJhjpDwSv8c9Pj-fmkQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-28 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-28 15:45 [TUHS] " KenUnix
2023-02-28 15:51 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2023-03-01 11:45   ` [TUHS] " Michael Huff
2023-03-01 12:32 Noel Chiappa

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