[Simh] Extracting SimH Tapes on Linux

[Stephen Merrony]

I should have said that the tape image contains a number of data files - 
which I can process - but I need to extract each individual files 
first.  I did do this a while ago using tapecopy or tcopy or mt or 
something-or-other...

/Stephen Merrony
/
On 29/11/2014 16:48, Clem Cole wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Stephen Merrony 
> <steve at stephenmerrony.co.uk <mailto:steve at stephenmerrony.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     extract a tape dump in SimH format 
>
>
> ​Can you be a little more detailed here.  The file is a SimH format of 
> the a tape.  But the tape itself has been formatted by the application 
> on the OS that wrote it.
>
> eg.  if its a UNIX "dump" format tape you need:   something to under 
> the SimH format and create a bytes stream to push into a program that 
> understand the UNIX restore format - which also means you might have 
> NUXI issues depend on the simulator that wrote it, since dump writes 
> integers in native formats in the metadata.
>
> or if it's a TOPS "dumper" (aka backup)​ you will need something to 
> under the SimH format and create a bytes stream to feed program that 
> understand the PDP-10 dumper format.
>
> FYI: I used to have tools for the later part, although I have never 
> run them on Linux. The last time i ran them was an Alpha under Tru64. 
>   I'll have to go digging.
>

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