From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:57:57 +0800 Subject: [TUHS] C-news is built In-Reply-To: References: <20170310094919.GA22414@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: This is what I've been using for years... http://gunkies.org/wiki/Mkdisttap.pl I've been keeping interesting source code tapes here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/Source%20Code/ And various binaries I've built under simh: 4.2 https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.2%20BSD/ 4.3 https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD/ 4.3 UWisc https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Package%20Tapes/4.3%20BSD%20Uwisc/ On March 11, 2017 5:14:12 AM GMT+08:00, Nick Downing wrote: >To get files into a 4.3BSD SIMH system the easiest way is with a Python >script that blockifies the file by outputting a 32 bits length (say >0x400), then that many bytes, then the length again, and repeat for >next >block until done. There is also a Perl version floating around which is >popular for canned SIMH scripts/packages. Then you mount this file on >tm0 (if I recall) in SIMH and then in the emulated system it appears at >/dev/mt0. I normally use tar in conjunction but it's not necessary >(note >star is a highly compatible tar implementation, I think it is by Joerg >from this list, although I use actual 4.3BSD tar compiled for Linux and >I think gnu tar also works mostly). I can send the details later, I am >using phone atm. >Nick > >On Mar 11, 2017 4:52 AM, "John Floren" < john at jfloren.net > > wrote: > > >Thanks Warren and Geoff, > >Two problems: > >1. 403 forbidden on that tarball > >2. What's the best way to get these files into a running 4.3 system? > >Thanks! > >John > >On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:49 AM, Warren Toomey < wkt at tuhs.org > > wrote: >> OK, Geoff Collyer has built the C-News binaries for the 4.2 emulated >> systems. They are temporarily at http://minnie.tuhs.org/Y5/ > Cnews/ >> >> Does someone want to try and get them up and running on an emulated >system? >> >> Also, I've build a 4.3BSD version of the emulated uucp systems. It's >a >> separate branch at https://github.com/DoctorWkt/ > 4bsd-uucp. You can get it >> by doing: >> >> git clone https://github.com/DoctorWkt/ > 4bsd-uucp.git \ >> --branch 4.3BSD --single-branch >> >> Once it's solid enough I will make this the default branch, but I'll >> leave the 4.2BSD branch there as well. >> >> Thanks Geoff! >> Warren -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: