[Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 144, Issue 19

[Kevin Handy]

Updated ansitpc with Larry's version.
VMS is much happer with the tapes created.
I haven't had a ot of time to analyze the changes so I just updated to his
version, which seems to work well with VMS.

git clone https://github.com/khandy21yo/emutools.git


On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Larry Baker <baker at usgs.gov> wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> On 6 Jan 2016, at 8:04 AM, <simh-request at trailing-edge.com> <
> simh-request at trailing-edge.com> wrote:
>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 07:36:20 -0700
> From: Kevin Handy <khandy21yo at gmail.com>
> To: "simh at trailing-edge.com" <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> Subject: [Simh] Another way to get files into simh
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> Here's another way for you to get files into a simh emulator
>
> I have a rough tool for Linux to create ansi tape images from a list of
> files.
>
> git clone https://github.com/khandy21yo/emutools.git
>
> It's under the ansitpc subdirectory.
>
> It's really rough at the moment, so don't expect not to have problems. No
> checks are done for lengths of names, for example. It still needs a lot of
> work.
>
> VMS will only read the first file in the tpc image, but RSTS/E sees all of
> them. I don't know why yet.
>
> Run it in the same directory that the files exist in using only bare names,
> no paths, otherwise it will want to put the path names in the filename on
> the tape.
>
>
> Try the attached to see if it fixes the problem of reading ansitpc tapes
> on VMS.  I can't compile it and test it because I don't have your popt
> library on my Mac.
>
> Larry Baker
> US Geological Survey
> 650-329-5608
> baker at usgs.gov
>
>
>
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