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

[Johnny Billquist]

I bet that would be written in some ANSI C, for which you won't find a C 
compiler for V7...

   Johnny

On 2017-11-08 03:09, khandy21yo wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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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