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

[Paul Koning]

> On Apr 4, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> 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

You're right, I misread words as bytes.  I don't believe relative files have record numbers.  VFC file?  I don't have much exposure to those, they are a VMS invention not seen on PDP11s that I can recall.  I seem to remember a particular VFC type used for listing files, where the fixed prefix is a line number.

	paul