[Simh] Attach tar to tape device and access it from v7 in simh

[khandy21yo]

Does V7 require a special version, or can you just download less from gnu.org?


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-------- Original message --------From: Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> Date: 11/7/17  6:46 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Attach tar to tape device and access it from v7 in simh 
I personally don't recall there ever being a less for v7. more, ex, vi, and csh were on a tape image of UCB tools, if you can find that.
-Mark

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    
  
  
    On 11/7/17 2:45 PM, Clem Cole wrote:

    
    
      
        

        
        

          On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Clem
            Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
            wrote:

            
              
                You
                  need to convert the foo.tar file to a foo.tap before
                  simh's mag tape reader will understand it.
              
            
            

            
            
              ​1.) ​
              gunzip 1bsd.tar.gz

              
            2
                ​.) 
                enblock <1bsd.tar >
                  ​1bsd
                  .tap
                ​
                 
            
              ​3.) ​in simh:    att mt0
                    1bsd.tap
              ​4.) in unix:  ​tar vxfb
                    /dev/rmt0 ...
            
            

              
          
        
      
    
    Thanks, Clem. Now I'm getting somewhere!

    

    I converted to a tap file (lo and behold, I wrote a perl script that
    did this for the silly thing 2 years ago) and ran it. Then attached
    the tap to simh and in v7:

    

    # tar xvfb /dev/rmt0

    Invalid blocksize. (Max 20)

    

    hmm... that doesn't sound good, let's try it another way:

    

    # tar xv0

    tar: ashell/ - cannot create

    x ashell/cont.a, 114488 bytes, 224 tape blocks

    x ashell/READ_ME, 825 bytes, 2 tape blocks

      # ls -ld ashell

      drwxrwxr-x 2 root       64 Dec 31 22:18 ashell

      # ls ashell

      READ_ME

      cont.a

      # find . -name "more*" -a -print

      # 

    ...

    

    It's coming back to me now, but oh so slowly, why is it complaining
    about cannot create all the while creating the folder? Also, darn! I
    was hoping more would be in there somewhere. Anybody know where the
    more or less pager source code might be for v7?

    

    Thanks,

    

    Will

    

    

    

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