28 Feb
2023
28 Feb
'23
4:45 p.m.
Morning,
I am using enblock to create tap files from tar files.
Was a program ever written to convert tap files to tar files or
a Linux program that could read tap files?
I also see that writing to a tap file from Unix the size increases
when writing multiple files however when writing 1 file to the tap
file "tar cv0 ..." the tap file still remains at its larger size from the
previous larger writes. Is this what is expected?
Thanks,
Ken
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28 Feb
28 Feb
4:51 p.m.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 10:45, KenUnix <ken.unix.guy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Morning,
I am using enblock to create tap files from tar files.
Was a program ever written to convert tap files to tar files or
a Linux program that could read tap files?
I also see that writing to a tap file from Unix the size increases
when writing multiple files however when writing 1 file to the tap
file "tar cv0 ..." the tap file still remains at its larger size from the
previous larger writes. Is this what is expected?
Thanks,
Ken
Hi Ken,
Questions like this are probably better suited to the SIMH mailing list.
https://groups.io/g/simh
That being said, is there a reason you're bothering to convert to tap
format? Modern versions of SIMH can do "attach [file] -f tar [device]" to
directly attach a tar file to a tape device.
-Henry
1 Mar
1 Mar
12:45 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 6:51 AM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 10:45, KenUnix
<ken.unix.guy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Henry, Ken and TUHS
All of the simh vax tutorials on Gunkies still give instructions to turn
all of the tar files (plus things like miniroot) into a single tap file for
installation. I don't know if that is the reason that Ken wants to do that,
however. If it is, he should look at the mkdisttap.pl utility on those
pages.
Ken, there are a couple of other utilities to convert tar files to opensim
tap files simtools collection, mksimtape and tar2mt here is the link to the
collection: https://github.com/open-simh/simtools/tree/master/converters
If there's a utility to convert tap files to tar files, I'm oblivious to it
-sorry.
-Michael
Morning,
I am using enblock to create tap files from tar files.
Was a program ever written to convert tap files to tar files or
a Linux program that could read tap files?
I also see that writing to a tap file from Unix the size increases
when writing multiple files however when writing 1 file to the tap
file "tar cv0 ..." the tap file still remains at its larger size from the
previous larger writes. Is this what is expected?
Thanks,
Ken
Hi Ken,
Questions like this are probably better suited to the SIMH mailing list.
https://groups.io/g/simh
That being said, is there a reason you're bothering to convert to tap
format? Modern versions of SIMH can do "attach [file] -f tar [device]" to
directly attach a tar file to a tape device.
-Henry
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