[Simh] RSTS/E and TPC formatted tape images

Michael Richter ttmrichter at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 00:32:34 EDT 2010


Actually, as it turns out, SIMH supports TPC format but, as Tim Shoppa
graciously assisted me with, it turns out you have to tell SIMH the image is
a TPC formatted file.  I was assuming it would autodetect the format.

Next problem is figuring out what the backup set is named so I can restore
the tape.  I can't see anything in the tape headers that gives me a clue.

On 16 April 2010 09:02, Douglas A. Gwyn <DAGwyn at null.net> wrote:

> Michael Richter <ttmrichter at ...> writes:
> >...  I've got a few TPC files lying around that I've attached in SIMH ...
>
> Unless something has changed, SIMH supports only TAP format, not TPC.
> As I recall, the latter is missing the length word after each record.
> You could write a small C program to convert TPC data into TAP data.
>
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