On 07/06/2017 10:42 PM, Dave Wade wrote: > Sadly I don't think that’s much use on Hercules as it needs an AWS or HET > file. Is there a format converter any where?
Dunno, but it should be pretty simple. TAP is discussed with the SIMH documentation and the AWS format is discussed here: http://www.cbttape.org/awstape.htm Mostly a matter of reworking headers. The surprising thing is that I know that some IBM tapes can have 128KB records--I don't know how AWS accommodates this with only 2 bytes for a record length. And "long block" tapes can theoretically have a single block that's the length of the physical tape, although one would be an idiot to do such a thing. (cf. CDC CYBER NOS/BE 1LT driver) --Chuck
