On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Sven Mascheck <mascheck@in-ulm.de> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 07:53:44PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:

> When I boot V7 in SIMH (pdp11), I get a root shell and a root filesystem,
> but... I see that /usr/bin is on root's default PATH, but I have no
> /usr/bin directory. Is there some way I could get a /usr/bin with
> additional executables, to get the full flavor of V7?

It's not unusual to have no /usr/bin at first,
see "Setting Up Unix" in the 7th ed man, vol2b:

Shouldn't there be a tar command somewhere on the system, as installed? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_%28file_format%29 indicates that V7 had a tar format.