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

[Bob Eager]

There's a version for 2.11BSD here; that ought to compile OK...

ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Distributions/UCB/2.11BSD_patch277/tape2.tar


On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 22:07:49 +0100
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> 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?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A
> > 
> > -------- 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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