On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Michael Richter <[email protected]> wrote: > Larry, > RSTS/E v9.6 is the guest operating system. Using another SIMH simulation to > do this isn't really suitable. (To begin with I haven't yet solved the > problem of getting the OpenVMS CD, but that's a different issue.) I have > loose files--many of them--I want to get into the PDP-11without hand-typing > thousands of lines of MACRO-11 source. Using a SIMH VAX to do this just > moves the typing problem around. It would be nice if I could manually > construct a tape image on the host system instead of the simulated ones. > > DECnetting it would be a bit of overkill, but I'll investigate if I can get > that working. > Another possibility would be ... is the specification for ANSI-labelled > tapes lying around somewhere? I could hack together a tar-like program to > build those from outside of the DEC world if the spec is available > somewhere. > >> Message: 2 >> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:54:50 +0800 >> From: Michael Richter <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Simh] Making tape/disk images >> To: simh <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Is there an easy way to take a bunch of files and turn them into either a >> tape image or a disk image suited for attaching to a PDP-11 under SIMH? >> > You might want to look at this: "Ansitape reads, writes, and creates magtapes conforming to the ANSI and IBM standard for magtape labelling. Primarily, this is useful to exchange tapes with VMS and IBM systems, which make this kind of tape by default."
<http://www.sinenomine.net/products/vm/ansitape> It has been around in one form or another since the 1980's. The source contains enough information to understand the minimum set of ANSI tape labels, and the program probably could be coerced into writing files instead of tapes. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [email protected] _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
