On 17/09/2020 07:38, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote: > The docs for SIMH .TAP files are here:- > > http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/simh_magtape.pdf > > be careful as there are also non-SIMH .tap formats > > In the IBM Mainframe emulation world there is also .AWS, an IBM format > introduced with its P390 Microchannel Mainframe card > and .HET a Hercules extension to .AWS which allows compression >
vtapeutils is quite handy for translating between (or listing) a few of the emulated tape formats. It supports AWS, TPC (2 byte record headers) and TAP (Simh - 4 byte record headers). https://sourceforge.net/projects/vtapeutils/ I've used TPC on RSX-11M and VMSTPC on VAX/VMS to read 9-track tapes. Then I used vtapeutils to convert from TPC to TAP format for Simh. Matt
