[Simh] attaching a tape virtual file without stopping simulation - a solution!
Edward Berry
eaberry1 at pacbell.net
Tue Feb 5 13:26:47 EST 2008
Boucher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't think it could be possible to copy the tape.tap file while
> It is still attached, as this could corrupt the file contents.
> To make sure there is no corruption, I wrote the detach/rename/attach
> to empty file modification that is run at the simh level. This guarantees there is no corruption.
Thanks. I will modify my scp.c, remake, and give it a try!
I can't <ctrl-E> to detach the tape with my current vax.ini,
but if this works automatically when VMS dismount/unload's,
that would be perfect!
Thanks,
Ed
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