From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erin@coffee.corliss.net (Erin W. Corliss) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:24:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: rt11 and disk images Message-ID: (writer bites his tongue to keep from ranting about paying $100 for an operating system for a computer that cost $12 at a second-hand store... 8^) So I went back to the junk store yesterday and found a TK25 tape drive, which appears to work fine with my PDP-11/73. It also uses the same cartriges as my SCSI tape backup drive... Is there a DOS, Linux, or windows NT program that I can use to save files to tape so I can load them on the PDP-11? When I initialize a tape, is the format standard among other computers, or is it specific to PDP's running RSTS? Is there any way to make Unix 7 use RD hard drives? ...and most importantly... Everything for PDP's seems to be distributed on disk images for drives I don't have. I think I saw something somewhere about being able to mount a .dsk file as a virtual drive under RT11... Anyone know if this is true? Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA14527 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 08:09:29 +1100 (EST) Received: from moe.2bsd.com (0 at MOE.2BSD.COM [206.139.202.200]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA14522 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 08:09:17 +1100 (EST) Received: (from sms at localhost) by moe.2bsd.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA11417 for pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:07:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:07:32 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven M. Schultz" Message-Id: <199812292107.NAA11417 at moe.2bsd.com> To: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Re: rt11 and disk images Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Hi - > From: "Erin W. Corliss" > (writer bites his tongue to keep from ranting about paying $100 for an > operating system for a computer that cost $12 at a second-hand store... 8^) If you think $100 for software is worthy of ranting I'd hate to see what $100k (what it used to cost for UNIX sources) worth of ranting would sound like :) :) :) > So I went back to the junk store yesterday and found a TK25 tape drive, > which appears to work fine with my PDP-11/73. It also uses the same > cartriges as my SCSI tape backup drive... Is there a DOS, Linux, or The TK25 (I have one also - worked the last time I checked some time ago) uses DC600A (the "A" is important) 60mb tapes. But there the similarity ends. > windows NT program that I can use to save files to tape so I can load them > on the PDP-11? When I initialize a tape, is the format standard among > other computers, or is it specific to PDP's running RSTS? The TQK25 formats the tape in a 'variable' record mode format that is (as far as I know) peculiar to DEC (or who ever built the TK25 for them). This makes the TK25 look and feel like a 9-track drive (record boundaries are preserved) which is nice. Unfortunately most (all?) QIC drives in the "PC" world end up in a 'fixed record' mode (which loses the concept of record size). So while you might have a DC600A drive on a Linux system it will, odds are, only write in fixed record mode which the TQK25 probably won't like. Have to try it and see what happens. > Is there any way to make Unix 7 use RD hard drives? Not easily. MSCP devices weren't around or weren't supported at the time V7 came out. You'd need a development system running supported disks first (perhaps the work could be done via an emulator). Then you could create "boot kits" (and adding RD/RA support would also entail writing bootblocks, standalone drivers, updating /boot, in additi0on to the mainline kernel 'ra.c' driver). 2.11BSD supports the RD drives quite nicely - if you've an 11/73 then perhaps using 2.11 instead of V7 might be worth considering. > ...and most importantly... > > Everything for PDP's seems to be distributed on disk images for drives I > don't have. I think I saw something somewhere about being able to mount a That's why I (even 6 years ago the older drive types were either too old or too bulky/powerhungry) bought an Emulex UC08 (MSCP->SCSI) and started using SCSI peripherals. You should have heard the ranting - but it was worth in the long haul. Steven Schultz sms at moe.2bsd.com Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA14776 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:37:12 +1100 (EST) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA14771 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:36:56 +1100 (EST) Received: from [158.152.152.109] (helo=falstaf.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zv7ku-0003ce-00 for pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:36:49 +0000 Message-ID: <7OIFxAA4hVi2EwHy at falstaf.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:32:24 +0000 To: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au From: Robin Birch Subject: Bob Supnik's Emulator. MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Dear All, I've been struggling with Bob's emulator (version 2.3d). The main problem appears to be around the TM device driver. I've been creating boot programs and data on my 11/73 under 2.11 BSD. To do this I've been using the makesimtape program. This hasn't worked very well. I've had to make individual files for each of the standalone utilities as I havn't been able to get the emulator to find files beyond the first one. For instance if I make a standalone file consisting of the bootstrap, boot, disklabel, mkfs, restor and inode then I can boot the processor and load and run disklabel but nothing beyond this. Using separate bootstraps, boot and , I have labeled and mkfs an RP04. I then tried restor. Well, I can get restor to load and run but it doesn't want to understand the dump file written with dd that is created as part of the generation of a distribution set on the 11/73. I suspect that there is some form of data conversion that I have to go through before I can read the files on the emulator. Has anybody installed 2.11 on the emulator from scratch. If so, can they offer any advice. Regards Robin PS, the emulator is compiled with gcc on Solaris 2.6 running on a sparc2. It runs the rt11 and v7 disks available with the simulator with no worries. ____________________________________________________________________ Robin Birch robin at falstaf.demon.co.uk M1ASU/2E0ARJ Old computers and radios always welcome Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA14831 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:49:48 +1100 (EST) Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA14826 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:49:40 +1100 (EST) Received: (from wkt at localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23598; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:51:35 +1100 (EST) From: Warren Toomey Message-Id: <199812292251.JAA23598 at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Subject: Re: Bob Supnik's Emulator. To: robin at falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:51:34 +1100 (EST) Cc: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Unix Heritage Society) In-Reply-To: <7OIFxAA4hVi2EwHy at falstaf.demon.co.uk> from Robin Birch at "Dec 29, 98 10:32:24 pm" Reply-To: wkt at cs.adfa.oz.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Robin Birch: > Dear All, > I've been struggling with Bob's emulator (version 2.3d). The main > problem appears to be around the TM device driver. I've been creating > boot programs and data on my 11/73 under 2.11 BSD. > > To do this I've been using the makesimtape program. This hasn't worked > very well. I've had to make individual files for each of the standalone > utilities as I havn't been able to get the emulator to find files beyond > the first one. For instance if I make a standalone file consisting of > the bootstrap, boot, disklabel, mkfs, restor and inode then I can boot > the processor and load and run disklabel but nothing beyond this. The format of a tape image is described in simh_doc.txt in Appendix 1.3, at roughly line 2,473 of the file. Perhaps the makesimtape program isn't making the tape correctly. What arguments are you giving it? On a silly note, if there is only a single thing on the tape you are trying to restor, you could always save it without the record structure imposed by makesimtape, attach it as RL00, and then restor it from /dev/rl00 :-) Best of luck, Warren Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA14858 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:51:34 +1100 (EST) Received: from caveman.geac.com.au (caveman.geac.com.au [203.30.73.2]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA14853 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:51:26 +1100 (EST) Received: (qmail 11612 invoked from network); 29 Dec 1998 21:55:57 -0000 Received: from brane.geac.com.au (202.6.67.115) by caveman.geac.com.au with SMTP; 29 Dec 1998 21:55:57 -0000 Received: from fgh.geac.com.au by brane.geac.com.au with smtp\n (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0zv7vT-0003l1C; Wed, 30 Dec 98 09:47 AEDT Received: from localhost (dave at localhost) by fgh.geac.com.au (SMI-8.X/SVR4) with ESMTP id JAA22945; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:48:10 +1100 Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:48:10 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall X-Sender: dave at fgh To: Greg Lehey cc: Unix Heritage Society Subject: Re: Converting Sixth Edition man pages In-Reply-To: <19981229184909.O32696 at freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: X-No-Archive: Yes X-Witty-Saying: "Tesseract - Enter at own risk" X-Disclaimer: "Me, speak for us?" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > In fact, I'm not sure that just viewing them *would* be easier. From > observation, the markup isn't too different from the -an macros. A > lot of the macros seem to be the same, just in a different case. But > there are enough differences that I wouldn't want to tackle it right > now. Do you have thee 6th Edition documentation to tell you what the macros do? I have them somewhere... -- Dave Horsfall VK2KFU dave at geac.com.au Ph: +61 2 9978-7493 Fx: +61 2 9978-7422 Geac Computers P/L (FGH Division) 2/57 Christie St, St Leonards 2065, Australia Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA14878 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:55:19 +1100 (EST) Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA14873 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:55:12 +1100 (EST) Received: (from wkt at localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23633 for pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:57:15 +1100 (EST) Received: from csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (csadfa-21.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.6]) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23154 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:54:13 +1100 (EST) From: norman@nose.cita.utoronto.ca Received: from nose.cita.utoronto.ca (nose.cita.utoronto.ca [128.100.76.157]) by csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id UAA13151 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:52:02 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199812290952.UAA13151 at csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au> To: wkt at cs.adfa.oz.au Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 04:51:20 -0500 Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Stuff this in the archives somewhere: V6 man macros. I can't remember where I dug it up, unfortunately. # To unbundle, sh this file echo tmac.an6 1>&2 sed 's/.//' >tmac.an6 <<'//GO.SYSIN DD tmac.an6' -'''\" Pwb Manual Entry Macros - Version 6 (@(#)an6.src 1.6) -'''\" Nroff/Troff Version @(#)1.6 -.deTH -.tmwrong version of man entry macros - use -man -.ab -.. -.rnbd Bd -.rndt Dt -.rnit il -.nr}I 5n -.nr}P 0 1 -.de}C -.ev1 -.po0 -.lt7.5i -.tl\-\- -.lt -.po -.ev -.. -.de}E -.wh-1p }C -.. -.ift .em }E -.dei0 -.in\\n(}Iu -.dt -.. -.delp -.tc -.i0 -.ta\\$2n -.in\\$1n -.ti-\\$2n -.. -.des1 -.sp1v -.ne2 -.. -.des2 -.ift .sp .5v -.ifn .sp 1v -.. -.des3 -.ift .sp .5v -.ifn .sp 1v -.ne2 -.. -.de}F -.ev1 -'ft1 -'ps10 -'sp.5i -.tl- % - -'ft -'ps -.ev -'bp -.. -.deth -.de}X -.ev1 -.ift .}C -'ft1 -'ps10 -'sp.5i -.tl''THIS MANUAL ENTRY NEEDS TO BE CONVERTED - SEE mancvt(1) and man(7)'' -.tl\\$1\|(\|\\$2\|)PWB/UNIX\| \\$3\\$1\|(\|\\$2\|) -'ps -'ft -'sp.5i -.ev -\\.. -.wh-1i }F -.wh0 }X -.if\\n+(}P>1 .bp1 -.ft1 -.ft1 -.ps10 -.vs12p -.ift .po .5i -.in\\n(}Iu -.fi -.dt -.mc -.ad -.ifn .na -.. -.desh -.s1 -.ift .ft 3 -.ps8 -.ti0 -\&\\$1 -.ift .ft -.ps -.br -.. -.deit -.ul -.ie\\nV>1 _\\$1_ -.el\&\\$1 -.. -.debd -.ift .ft 3 -.ifn .ul -.ie\\nV>1 _\\$1_ -.el\&\\$1 -.ift .ft -.. -.debn -.ift .ft 3 -.ifn .ul -.ie\\nV>1 _\\$1_\t\&\c -.el\&\\$1\t\&\c -.ift .ft -.. -.dedt -.ifn .ta 8n 16n 24n 32n 40n 48n 56n 64n 72n 80n -.ift .ta .5i 1i 1.5i 2i 2.5i 3i 3.5i 4i 4.5i 5i 5.5i 6i 6.5i -.. -'dsv \(bv -'ds' \(aa -'ds> \(-> -'dsX \(mu -'ds_ _ -'ds- \- -'dsG \(*G -'dsg \(ga -'dsp \(*p -'dsa \(aa -'dsb \(*b -'dsr \(rg -'ds| \| -'dsu \(*m -.if\nV=1 \{\ -.po4 -.ll80 -.lt80 -.ev1 -.ll80 -.lt80 -.ev\} -.if\nV>1 \{\ -.ll82 -.lt82 -.ev1 -.ll82 -.lt82 -.ev -.pl84 -.rmul\} -.hy14 -.uf2 //GO.SYSIN DD tmac.an6 Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA14989 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:04:45 +1100 (EST) Received: from moe.2bsd.com (0 at MOE.2BSD.COM [206.139.202.200]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA14984 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:04:35 +1100 (EST) Received: (from sms at localhost) by moe.2bsd.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA12398 for pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:03:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:03:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven M. Schultz" Message-Id: <199812292303.PAA12398 at moe.2bsd.com> To: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Re: Bob Supnik's Emulator. Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Robin - Howdy. > From: Robin Birch > I've been struggling with Bob's emulator (version 2.3d). The main 2.3d? Hmmm, sounds like a little newer one than I've used in the past (I've updated selected modules so I'm probably running 2.3d but the directory is still called 2.3b ;)) > problem appears to be around the TM device driver. I've been creating > boot programs and data on my 11/73 under 2.11 BSD. I don't think that's the case - but read on and see if my new theory sounds plausible... > Using separate bootstraps, boot and , I have labeled and mkfs > an RP04. I then tried restor. Well, I can get restor to load and run > but it doesn't want to understand the dump file written with dd that is > created as part of the generation of a distribution set on the 11/73. Umm, you can't use a 'dd'd image - you have to use 'makesimtape' (or a similar utility) to add the record/file/bytecount markers that the simulator expects to see. > I suspect that there is some form of data conversion that I have to go > through before I can read the files on the emulator. Yes, there is. Not sure why it didn't occur to me earlier when you mentioned having problems. I assume you compiled and ran 'makesimtape' on the same system (Sparc) as the simulator is running. If so then it sounds to be like there's an endianness bug in makesimtape. That wouldn't surprise me since all I have are either little or pdp-11 endian systems and never tested makesimtape on a big endian machine. There are ifdefs around what I thought were the appropriate places for flipping bytes - what you'll need to do is get Bob's description of the simulated tape format (fairly simply and it's in the docs somewhere as I recall) and the makesimtape.c source and see where I "oops"d. > Has anybody installed 2.11 on the emulator from scratch. If so, can > they offer any advice. Yes, I have. But only on little endian systems. The one time (ages ago) I tried the simulator on a Sparc the program dropped core because it wasn't bigendian capable. That's been fixed but I've never tried it again. Steven Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA15089 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:21:23 +1100 (EST) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA15084 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:21:14 +1100 (EST) Received: from [158.152.152.109] (helo=falstaf.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zv8Rf-0005cU-00; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:20:59 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:20:18 +0000 To: "Steven M. Schultz" Cc: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au From: Robin Birch Subject: Re: Bob Supnik's Emulator. In-Reply-To: <199812292303.PAA12398 at moe.2bsd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In message <199812292303.PAA12398 at moe.2bsd.com>, Steven M. Schultz writes >Robin - > I don't think that's the case - but read on and see if my new > theory sounds plausible... > I think that I've independantly come up with the same answer but by a different logical root. >> Using separate bootstraps, boot and , I have labeled and mkfs >> an RP04. I then tried restor. Well, I can get restor to load and run >> but it doesn't want to understand the dump file written with dd that is >> created as part of the generation of a distribution set on the 11/73. > > Umm, you can't use a 'dd'd image - you have to use 'makesimtape' > (or a similar utility) to add the record/file/bytecount markers that > the simulator expects to see. > Now this is what I didn't realise at first. All I thought makesimtape was doing was packaging up the files, not writing some structure around them. >> I suspect that there is some form of data conversion that I have to go >> through before I can read the files on the emulator. > > Yes, there is. Not sure why it didn't occur to me earlier when you > mentioned having problems. > > I assume you compiled and ran 'makesimtape' on the same system > (Sparc) as the simulator is running. > This is the big one, no. I had assumed that as the simulator was emulating a PDP that it would accept files generated to look like boot files etc built on a pdp so I'm running makesimtape in the standalone direcctory of the 11/73. Nieve maybe but at least it was logical :-). > If so then it sounds to be like there's an endianness bug in > makesimtape. That wouldn't surprise me since all I have are > either little or pdp-11 endian systems and never tested makesimtape > on a big endian machine. > What I'll do is build makesimtape on the sun and see what happens then. > There are ifdefs around what I thought were the appropriate places > for flipping bytes - what you'll need to do is get Bob's description > of the simulated tape format (fairly simply and it's in the docs > somewhere as I recall) and the makesimtape.c source and see where I > "oops"d. Back in a mo. Robin ____________________________________________________________________ Robin Birch robin at falstaf.demon.co.uk M1ASU/2E0ARJ Old computers and radios always welcome Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA15164 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:34:30 +1100 (EST) Received: from moe.2bsd.com (0 at MOE.2BSD.COM [206.139.202.200]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA15159 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:34:21 +1100 (EST) Received: (from sms at localhost) by moe.2bsd.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA12655 for pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:33:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:33:50 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven M. Schultz" Message-Id: <199812292333.PAA12655 at moe.2bsd.com> To: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Re: Bob Supnik's Emulator. Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Robin - > From robin at falstaf.demon.co.uk Tue Dec 29 15:21:08 1998 > > Umm, you can't use a 'dd'd image - you have to use 'makesimtape' > > (or a similar utility) to add the record/file/bytecount markers that > Now this is what I didn't realise at first. All I thought makesimtape > was doing was packaging up the files, not writing some structure around It's writing simulated bytecounts and simulated file and tape marks ;) > > I assume you compiled and ran 'makesimtape' on the same system > > > This is the big one, no. I had assumed that as the simulator was Ah, ok - so you're running the makesimtape program on an 11. That would tend to point the finger at the program not flipping the 'structure' bytes into correct big endian order. > emulating a PDP that it would accept files generated to look like boot > files etc built on a pdp so I'm running makesimtape in the standalone > directory of the 11/73. Nieve maybe but at least it was logical :-). The "data" is PDP-11 specific, but the "structure" bytes need to be in a canonical (big endian) form. I was pretty sure the endianness was ok but I guess not. Another possibility is that there's an alignment disagreement. The 11 might be putting something on a 2 byte bound where the Sun expects a 4 byte alignment. > > There are ifdefs around what I thought were the appropriate places > > for flipping bytes - what you'll need to do is get Bob's description > Back in a mo. If you find (and fix ;-)) it let me know and I'll integrate the changes into makesimtape.c in the 2.11 tree (and eventually in to the PUPS archive). Steve Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA15193 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:42:04 +1100 (EST) Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA15188 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:41:57 +1100 (EST) Received: (from wkt at localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA23709; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:43:56 +1100 (EST) From: Warren Toomey Message-Id: <199812292343.KAA23709 at henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Subject: Re: Converting Sixth Edition man pages To: grog at lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:43:56 +1100 (EST) Cc: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au In-Reply-To: <19981229123952.B12346 at freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Dec 29, 98 12:39:52 pm" Reply-To: wkt at cs.adfa.oz.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In article by Greg Lehey: > I have the Sixth Edition man pages on my machine, but I can't do much > with them, since they use obsolete macros. Is there any way to > convert them to the Seventh Edition style? > > Greg Here's a quick hack which is a start. It's a Perl script called fix: #!/usr/bin/perl while (<>) { s/^\.br/.BR/; if (/^\.bd/) { if (/\"/) { s/^\.bd/.B/; print; $_=".br\n"; } else { s/^\.bd/.B/; } } s/^\.bl/.BL/; s/^\.it/.I/; s/^\.sh/.SH/; s/^\.th/.TH/; s/^\.s3/.PP/; s/\\\*/\\/g; print; } I've run the V6 section 1 manuals through it, then nroffed them using GNU nroff under FreeBSD 2.2.x, and I get only the following error messages: # for i in *.1 > do perl /tmp/fix $i | nroff -man > /dev/null > done :428: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :95: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :77: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :40: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :119: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :132: normal or special character expected (got a node) :137: a tab character is not allowed in an escape name :83: cannot use a space as a starting delimiter :127: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :93: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :75: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :64: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :36: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :154: a tab character is not allowed before an argument :182: a tab character is not allowed before an argument :182: error: end of file while ignoring input lines :95: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion :95: can't set diversion trap when no current diversion I haven't eyeballed the output from them all, but ls(1), sh(1), db(1) and roff(1) look ok. Send in any improvements!! Warren Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA15247 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:59:06 +1100 (EST) Received: from mpl.ucsd.edu (chiton.ucsd.edu [192.135.238.128]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA15242 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:58:57 +1100 (EST) Received: (from cdl at localhost) by mpl.ucsd.edu (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id PAA16791; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:58:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:58:25 -0800 (PST) From: Carl Lowenstein Message-Id: <199812292358.PAA16791 at mpl.ucsd.edu> To: dave at fgh.geac.com.au, grog at lemis.com Subject: Re: Converting Sixth Edition man pages Cc: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk > From owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Tue Dec 29 15:07 PST 1998 > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:48:10 +1100 (EST) > From: Dave Horsfall > X-Sender: dave at fgh > To: Greg Lehey > cc: Unix Heritage Society > > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > In fact, I'm not sure that just viewing them *would* be easier. From > > observation, the markup isn't too different from the -an macros. A > > lot of the macros seem to be the same, just in a different case. But > > there are enough differences that I wouldn't want to tackle it right > > now. > > Do you have thee 6th Edition documentation to tell you what the macros > do? I have them somewhere... > > -- A quick check around some computers that I have on-line shows two sets of v6 man macros, one for nroff and one for troff. This is on a NeXT running NeXTstep 3.3. But I suspect that these same macros are available on anything with a BSD 4.3 flavor. /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an6n /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an6t About 200 lines total between them. With the right macros, [ntg]roff should be able to do everything else. carl carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein at ucsd.edu Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA15274 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:06:51 +1100 (EST) Received: from moe.2bsd.com (0 at MOE.2BSD.COM [206.139.202.200]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA15267 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:06:42 +1100 (EST) Received: (from sms at localhost) by moe.2bsd.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id QAA12964 for pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:06:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:06:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven M. Schultz" Message-Id: <199812300006.QAA12964 at moe.2bsd.com> To: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Tape endianness in Bob's simulator Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Hi - In glancing thru Bob's simulator I spotted this: * Endian independent binary I/O package For consistency, all binary data read and written by the simulator is stored in little endian data order. That is, in a multi-byte data item, the bytes are written out right to left, low order byte to high order byte. On a big endian host, data is read and written from high byte to low byte. Consequently, data written on a little endian system must be byte reversed to be usable on a big endian system, and vice versa. Perhaps this sheds some light on why a Sparc can't read a pdp-11 generated (via 'makesimtape') tape. I know I've read simulated tape files on an Intel system with no trouble - so it would appear that the endianness was correct. Good Luck Robin! ;) Steven Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA15356 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:53:44 +1100 (EST) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA15351 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:53:20 +1100 (EST) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA06005; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:21:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog at localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA35293; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:21:48 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981230112148.C32696 at freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:21:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Steven M. Schultz" , pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Re: rt11 and disk images References: <199812292107.NAA11417 at moe.2bsd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812292107.NAA11417 at moe.2bsd.com>; from Steven M. Schultz on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 01:07:32PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 13:07:32 -0800, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > The TQK25 formats the tape in a 'variable' record mode format that > is (as far as I know) peculiar to DEC (or who ever built the TK25 > for them). This makes the TK25 look and feel like a 9-track drive > (record boundaries are preserved) which is nice. > > Unfortunately most (all?) QIC drives in the "PC" world end up in a > 'fixed record' mode (which loses the concept of record size). So > while you might have a DC600A drive on a Linux system it will, odds are, > only write in fixed record mode which the TQK25 probably won't like. > Have to try it and see what happens. I believe the new CAM driver for FreeBSD 3.0 can do variable block lengths on QIC drives. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA16818 for pups-liszt; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:31:23 +1100 (EST) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA16813 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:31:13 +1100 (EST) Received: from [158.152.152.109] (helo=falstaf.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zvKmJ-0002Hl-00; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:31:07 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:28:31 +0000 To: "Steven M. Schultz" Cc: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au From: Robin Birch Subject: Re: Tape endianness in Bob's simulator In-Reply-To: <199812300006.QAA12964 at moe.2bsd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 3.05 Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk In message <199812300006.QAA12964 at moe.2bsd.com>, Steven M. Schultz writes > I know I've read simulated tape files on an Intel system with no > trouble - so it would appear that the endianness was correct. > > Good Luck Robin! ;) > > Steven Steven, I now have a makesimtape that creates the bootstrap files correctly. I have found, I think, one bug and partly rewritten another bit just to put my mind at rest about a couple of things. I still can't create the root correctly though. What I have found: 1) Your endianness is correct, it took me a couple of sample programs and rewrites to prove it. In doing this I have replaced trl with another bit of code that does the same thing but is easier to play around with to change the byte orders. 2) There are two bugs in the use of writev. These are: 2.1) When writing the headers and data you are writing a long to the file where iovec only supports (I think) an unsigned short. 2.2) When writing the tape marks you are writing an integer as though it was a long. Of the two 2.2 is the most significant (I think). After correcting both of these. By changing zero from an int to a long and by replacing the writevs with writes for the headers, data and trailers I have a version of makesimtape that creates a bootstrap file that works. I can load and run all of the bootstrap programs as though I was looking at a real pdp which I couldn't before. This makes me think that I have probably got makesimtape about right. Now for the bad bit. I have created a root.dump then run it through makesimtape with the command file: /usr/root.dump 2 * 1 and it won't load from restor. I get a succession of "missing address (header) block" errors but I successfully detect the end of the tape and restor stops running, as it is supposed to do. So, am I doing something wrong in creating the root file? or is there something still wrong with makesimtape?. This is probably a red herring but the distribution tapes are written with a blocksize of 20 for all of the data after the bootstraps whilst makesimtape only writes multiples of 512. Advice please Robin ____________________________________________________________________ Robin Birch robin at falstaf.demon.co.uk M1ASU/2E0ARJ Old computers and radios always welcome Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id CAA17289 for pups-liszt; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 02:53:20 +1100 (EST) Received: from moe.2bsd.com (0 at MOE.2BSD.COM [206.139.202.200]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA17284 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 02:53:10 +1100 (EST) Received: (from sms at localhost) by moe.2bsd.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id HAA10714 for pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 07:52:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 07:52:58 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven M. Schultz" Message-Id: <199812301552.HAA10714 at moe.2bsd.com> To: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: Re: Tape endianness in Bob's simulator Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Robin - > From robin at falstaf.demon.co.uk Wed Dec 30 04:31:15 1998 > What I have found: > > 1) Your endianness is correct, it took me a couple of sample programs Whew - that's a relief. > 2) There are two bugs in the use of writev. These are: > > 2.1) When writing the headers and data you are writing a long to the > file where iovec only supports (I think) an unsigned short. iovec can write as much as it wants to. To write a 'long' one simply stuffs the _address_ of the long variable into iov_base and "sizeof long" into iov_len. I'm not sure what you mean by iovec only supporting a short. > 2.2) When writing the tape marks you are writing an integer as though it > was a long. It isn't? Oops. On some systms (those where "sizeof long == sizeof int") 'zero' would be a long. Sigh - I've been contaminated by machines where that assumption is true. > Now for the bad bit. I have created a root.dump then run it through > makesimtape with the command file: > > /usr/root.dump 2 > * 1 > > and it won't load from restor. I get a succession of "missing address > (header) block" errors but I successfully detect the end of the tape and > restor stops running, as it is supposed to do. > So, am I doing something wrong in creating the root file? or is there Uh, yes ;) 'dump' tapes *must* consist of 10kb records. 'restore' is expecting 10kb (or 20 sector) records and complaining about the shortness of what it is reading. > something still wrong with makesimtape?. This is probably a red herring > but the distribution tapes are written with a blocksize of 20 for all of > the data after the bootstraps whilst makesimtape only writes multiples > of 512. Correct. The bootblock+boot needs to be 512 byte records so the boot rom can deal with it. The standalone programs are 1kb records (because that's the filesystem block size and to make the 'seeking' in the pseudo-stdio routines possible/simple). All the _data_ files are 10kb records because that's what 'tar' and 'dump' use. Steven Received: (from major at localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id DAA17381 for pups-liszt; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:15:43 +1100 (EST) Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au ([24.192.3.19]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA17376 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:15:36 +1100 (EST) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id DAA06722 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:15:32 +1100 (EDT) Received: from nsw.bigpond.net.au (UNKNOWN061179.rev.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.61.179]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id DAA17024 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:15:31 +1100 (EDT) Message-ID: <368A5145.BE11CED3 at nsw.bigpond.net.au> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:13:57 +1100 From: Michael Kraus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pups at minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: PDP Free to good home... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pups at minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk G'day all... I've got a DEC Pro/350 machine (including Pro OS and manuals, etc), as well as a serial printer for it. I've been planning on putting UNIX on it, and tracking down a network card for it. However, I don't really have enough time or space to do such. It is a PDP (unsure if it is a PDP-11 or not... I did find out, but that was a while ago). I'm pretty sure that you will be able to get it to run UNIX (v6, I think). Rather then let it sit useless in my hall, I thought one of you guys (or girls, as the case may be) may appreciate it more than what I currently am. The only cost involved would be the cost of getting yourself here, picking it up and taking it back home. FYI, I live in Paddington (NSW). Email me if you are interested. Michael. P.s. It is in my posssesion as my father is a doctor and it was in use for many years in his practice. (Its only recently that they upgraded as it suited the purpose so well!)