[Simh] Tape conversion

[Cory Smelosky]

On Sun, 3 May 2015, Timothe Litt wrote:

> https://github.com/tlhackque/backup36 contains a pre-release of the
> tape36 component of backup36.
>

Works.

> As this is a pre-release and largely untested, set your expectations
> accordingly.
>

It seems to behave as expected, however it likes to ... dump core. ;)

If the intput is already in a usable format, it will segfault.

If no args are given, it will ALSO segfault.

> It is intended to convert between any of the tape packing formats
> supported by pdp-10 hardware.
>
> It has had **very** limited testing, but it does successfully round-trip
> at least one file between high-density and core dump mode.
>

Confirmed.

> Note that it always writes an end-of-media marker on the output file;
> converting core-dump to core-dump may give a difference of 4 bytes, with
> the extra 4 at EOF being 0xFFFFFFFF.  This is expected.
>

Alright.

> See the README for build instructions.  It has usage with --help.
>
> For the case of high-density to core dump, it's
>
>       tape36 -ihigh-density infile.tap outfile.tap
>

Thanks.

> Add a -v if you like.
>
> I have not tested the other formats at all.  If someone with energy
> does, let me know your results.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> This communication may not represent my employer's views,
> if any, on the matters discussed.
>
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