[Simh] Help with loading vax82b zip file into simh/vms

[Ron Young]

On April 4, 2019 1:21:37 PM PDT, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>That looks like standard RMS:VAR records, implied carriage control. 
>That means: each line is preceded by a 2 byte little endian length, and
>line ends are not actually in the file but implicit between each line.
>
>	paul
>
>> On Mar 26, 2019, at 5:54 PM, Ron Young <rly1 at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All:
>> 
>>   I want to load some programs from the vax82b decus "tape" into my
>>   simh/vax/vms 7.3 system. VMS is installed and running.
>> 
>>   I normally would download the tape image and mount it in simh/vms
>and
>>   copy/restore. Unfortunately, I can't find any tape images for
>vax82b.
>>   There are zip files located on
>>   https://eisner.decus.org/repository/master/vms/library/.
>> 
>>   However when I ftp the files over to vms, the record type is messed
>up
>>   (displays 2 bytes of "garbage" and doesn't see the end of line).
>Looking
>>   at a linux dump of the first couple of lines (shown below).
>> 
>>   Any ideas on how I can fix this, or where tapes images are located?
>> 
>>   thanks
>>   -ron
>> 
>> 
>> $ od -ao --endian=little apl.v30 | more
>> 0000000   , nul soh nul  ht   P   R   O   G   R   A   M  sp  sp  sp 
>sp
>>         000054  000001  050011  047522  051107  046501  020040 
>020040
>> 0000020   a   p   l  sp   !   !   V   e   r  sp   3   .   0   ,  sp  
>F
>> 	 070141  020154  020441  062526  020162  027063  026060  043040
>> 0000040   a   l   l  sp   1   9   8   2  sp   D   E   C   U   S  gs
>nul
>>         066141  020154  034461  031070  042040  041505  051525 
>000035
>> 0000060 stx nul   c   +  ht  ht   M   a   i   n  sp   A   P   L  sp  
>d
>>         000002  025543  004411  060515  067151  040440  046120 
>062040
>> 0000100   r   i   v   e   r  sp   p   r   o   g   r   a   m nul eot
>nul
>>         064562  062566  020162  071160  063557  060562  000155 
>000004
>> 0000120 etx nul   c   ;   , nul eot nul   c   ;  ht   I   n   i   t  
>a
>>         000003  035543  000054  000004  035543  044411  064556 
>060564
>> 						      
>>
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Thanks... Is there any way to change the file attributes to match the var records? When I unzip the files on vms the length bytes show up as characters.

This is just for my future info, I wrote a Linux c program to doe the conversion.

Thanks
-ron
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