[Simh] RQ disk formats broken in the latest build?

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Tue Apr 10 14:06:01 EDT 2018



> On Apr 10, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-04-10 18:46, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>   In the PDP11 simh from a couple of weeks ago, the disk image files seem to default to simh format   ...
> 
> I suspect that might be ok. What is simh format, really? I mean, it's just a bunch of blocks, and no extra information in there, unless something changed since I last looked.

"Format" is a bit misleading here.  It seems more a question of I/O API.  "SIMH" means standard C I/O, while "raw" means something else.  On Unix the distinction is probably not particularly meaningful; it may matter more on other operating systems.

	paul


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