I could upload LHA if you need a copy. This is what I used back in the early 90's, because one could incorporate it with DOS batch files nicely Bill
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 8:43 PM Paul Koning via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > I recently ran into an archive of various Pro 300 items, mostly from DECUS > I believe. That includes a full P/OS 3.2 distribution including (!) > DECnet/Pro if I saw that right. > > It's at ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/professional/ > > What makes things somewhat painful is that it's LHA compressed Teledisk > images, which is an ancient DOS based floppy imaging tool. The > instructions say to run Teledisk on a DOS system with a 5.25 inch floppy > drive to write the images to RX50 floppies, which can then be used. > > If you don't have DOS handy, or would rather get floppy image files for > use with Xhomer, this can work but it's a bit painful. > > I found there's a simpler way. > > 1. Decompress the LHA files. On a Mac, the unarchiver (I think that comes > with the OS?) handles that format. On other operating systems, I assume > it's equally straightforward to find a tool that handles this. You now > have a pile of *.TD0 files, which are the TeleDisk format files. > > 2. From http://www.seasip.info/Unix/LibDsk/ install LibDsk 1.5 (not 1.4). > > 3. Use the dsktrans tool you got from step 2 to convert each *.TD0 file to > a raw image, like this: > dsktrans -otype raw PRO177/177-21.TD0 proinstallv32.dsk > "raw" format means a straight sector dump in physical order; this is > the format expected by xHomer. > > If for any reason you want a logical order image, for example to give to > the SIMH "rq" device that emulates an RQDXn controller, you'll need a tool > that reorders things. I have one in my RSTS file system tool "flx" (V3 in > Python, not the earlier 2.6 in C), "rx50.py". I can supply more details if > needed. > > paul > >
