[Simh] Errors when running UNIX V7

Tim Newsham newsham at lava.net
Thu May 22 15:35:31 EDT 2008


> That makes sense. The only part i did not get was "I use a tool to put it on
> a tape image". Would you mind sharing the secret? I don't have a clue on the
> format that SimH uses.

I use a program I wrote 
(http://www.thenewsh.com/%7Enewsham/x/machine/conv2.c)
There's a more official tool, but I don't know where it is off hand.
The process is:

    modern$ gtar -ocf stuff.tar file1 file2
    modern$ conv2 -o tape.tm stuff.tar

    sim> att tm tape.tm

    ancient$ tar x

> /Mike

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/



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