On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 6:51 AM Henry Bent wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 10:45, KenUnix 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