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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/7/17 2:45 PM, Clem Cole wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Clem
Cole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clemc@ccc.com"
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need to convert the foo.tar file to a foo.tap before
simh's mag tape reader will understand it.</div>
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<font color="#0000ff">gunzip 1bsd.tar.gz<br>
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<span style="text-align:justify">enblock <</span>1bsd.tar<span
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1bsd.tap</span></font></div>
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color="#0000ff">4.) in unix: ta<span
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/dev/rmt0 ...</span></font></div>
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Thanks, Clem. Now I'm getting somewhere!<br>
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I converted to a tap file (lo and behold, I wrote a perl script that
did this for the silly thing 2 years ago) and ran it. Then attached
the tap to simh and in v7:<br>
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<tt># tar xvfb /dev/rmt0</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Invalid blocksize. (Max 20)</tt><tt><br>
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hmm... that doesn't sound good, let's try it another way:<br>
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<tt># tar xv0</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>tar: ashell/ - cannot create</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>x ashell/cont.a, 114488 bytes, 224 tape blocks</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>x ashell/READ_ME, 825 bytes, 2 tape blocks</tt><tt><br>
# ls -ld ashell<br>
drwxrwxr-x 2 root 64 Dec 31 22:18 ashell<br>
# ls ashell<br>
READ_ME<br>
cont.a<br>
# find . -name "more*" -a -print<br>
# <br>
</tt>...<br>
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It's coming back to me now, but oh so slowly, why is it complaining
about cannot create all the while creating the folder? Also, darn! I
was hoping more would be in there somewhere. Anybody know where the
more or less pager source code might be for v7?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Will<br>
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