17 Nov
2013
17 Nov
'13
3:14 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 04:39:01AM -0500, Mark Longridge wrote:
In my quest to find earlier versions of APL\11 I have
come across something
called yale-apl, which is most likely from the Unix version 6 era. I can run
Unix v6 under simh but I am at a loss on how to transfer binary or even text
files into it. I have been able to transfer files from a Unix v7 without
difficulty but v6 seems to be quite different. There is no tar utility in v6.
Does anyone have any ideas?
v6 has ar(1):
http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/ar
The BUGS at the end are severe enough that you should read them and take heed
when creating an archive on a modern system.
Another wheeze which I've used for file transfer a few times is to plug the
disk into a Linux box and mount the filesystem directly. I've even plugged a
machine's external SCSI connector into a SCSI card on my PC, which lets both
machines access the disk simultaneously. You obviously need to be *very*
careful to not simultaneously mount the same filesystem from both machines.