On 03/12/2015 05:15 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Michael Huff wrote:
I have tried creating tar files and then mounting them as devices and/or
reading from them with tar but I haven't had any success. I've tried
googling and looking around, but I haven't figured out how to do this.
Tar files are simply streams of bytes. They are NOT simh tape files
with built in record sizes and tape marks. There may be tools to
convert a tar file to a simh structured tape, but I personally don't
know of one. It wouldn't be too hard to write a program to do that
though. The simh tape structure is documented in section A.3 of
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/pdf/simh_doc.pdf
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I don't know how to program, so I'll
probably try to follow your advice about networking.
My host machine is Linux Mint/17/amd64 and I'm using the vax780
simulator with 4.3BSD, and I'm trying to work out how to get files and
and out of there (I haven't had any better luck with networking).
If you use the latest simh code from
https://github.com/simh/simh/archive/master.zip and you happen to have
2 network interfaces on your Linux Mint host machine you can easily
get networking working. If have two NICs I can walk you through the
details. Alternatively, bridged networking can be setup, but the
details are significantly more complicated...
- Mark
I do have two interfaces; I have eth0 and wlan0 (wireless). My computer
is set to use wireless networking, so eth0 is unused and free.
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