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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>There are multiple types of tape images out there. Commonly the
ones with 2 byte record<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Lengths are called “TPC” and the ones with 4 byte record lengths
are called “TAP”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>There’s also a subdivision of the 4 byte record length ones into
SIMH and E11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>But I think it would be foolhardy to assume that all TAP’s use
the .tap extension and all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>TPC’s use the .tpc extension.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Can you try the SIMH attach options (page 8 of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/simh_doc.pdf">http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/simh_doc.pdf</a>)
and see if it helps?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sometimes tape images are corrupted by moving them in ascii
instead of binary mode by ftp, too.<span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Michael Richter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 12, 2010 10:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> simh<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Simh] RSTS/E and TPC formatted tape images<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I'm running RSTS/E 9.6 courtesy of Bill Heaton's excellent
and helpful site. I've got a few TPC files lying around that I've
attached in SIMH and am trying to mount in RSTS. When I do this, I get
the following error back from RSTS:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>$ mount _MM0</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>?Incorrect density
or uninitialized tape</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Looking at the TPC file itself, I'm not seeing the problem.
This is how the tape starts (where ^<foo> is, of course, a single
binary character):<o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>P^@VOL1SOURCE
D%B44310011971
3P^@HDR1INIT.DIR
SOURCE00010001000100 8512</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>3 85123
000000DECRSTS/E P^@HDR2U0051200000
M
00
^@^@^@^B</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Name .Typ
Size Prot Name .Typ Size
Prot DU2:[170,42]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIPFX.MAC
81 < 60> DSKDEF.MAC 101
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>DISKDF.MAC
31 < 60> TAPDEF.MAC
16 < 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIDFN.MAC
31 < 60> ODTPFX.MAC
3 < 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>SILNDX.MAC
7 < 60> INIFIP.MAC 105
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIDSK.MAC
89 < 60> INITTY.MAC
68 < 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIBOO.MAC
22 < 60> INIDSI.MAC 211
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INILOA.MAC
26 < 60> INICOP.MAC 146
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIHAR.MAC
107 < 60> ^@^BINIDEF.MAC 295
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIBEG.MAC
12 < 60> STACOM.MAC
9 < 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIBLD.MAC
4 < 60> INISTA.MAC 199
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INILDI.MAC
3 < 60> FLC .MAC
6 < 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INILDR.MAC
35 < 60> INIDST.MAC
3 < 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIINS.MAC
128 < 60> INIONE.MAC 193
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIREF.MAC
103 < 60> INICLN.MAC 177
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INISET.MAC
71 < 60> INIIDS.MAC
19 < 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIMCP.MAC
4 < 60> INIODT.MAC 134
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>BLDBOT.MAC
16 ^@^B < 60> INIBBR.MAC
3 < 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>ROOT .MAC
303 < 60> INIPAT.MAC 105
< 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;
margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>INIIDE.MAC
16 < 60> ASMONE.CMD
1 < 60></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>To me this looks like a perfectly fine bit of data.
What am I doing wrong when I'm mounting it? Is this perhaps not a
tape file but instead a different class of device?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>
"Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions
of entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese people.
It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."<br>
--Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil"
mantra.<o:p></o:p></p>
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