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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2019-04-04 22:21, Paul Koning 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.

No. It looks a little more complicated than that.
It's certainly variable length records as you say. However, after the 
size is the record number, and after that comes the data.

Relative file with variable length records maybe?

   Johnny

> 
> 	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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>> Ron Young				rly1 at embarqmail.com
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