[Simh] Mag tape interface

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Thu Mar 29 13:32:24 EDT 2012


On 3/29/12 10:24 AM, Jon Elson wrote:

> What I will do next is write a program that reads in a whole
> tape to a disk file that is an exact representation of the tape.
> So, there would be a 32-bit record indicator that would be 1-65536
> for a block of data, -1 for a file mark, and -2, etc. for various
> errors.
>

Is there any particular reason you are inventing ANOTHER tape container format?




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