30 Mar
2012
30 Mar
'12
10:08 a.m.
On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
From: Jon Elson
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:36 PM
I was going to ask the same thing, but I think it carries more weight
coming from Rich. :-) SimH format is ridiculously easy to write; if
you've already converted a bunch of tapes to your own format, I'd
suggest that it's easy to write a Python script to do a translation
(which is what I've done with some of the RSX-11M images available
I'm now working on a program to move the
entire tape to a single disk
file with pretty much verbatim bytes from the tape. It will have a
32-bit header for each record of file mark, showing the record size or
file mark. Then I can write programs at my leisure to extract files
without having to listen to the wail of the Gast vane pump in the
keystone tape drive.
I believe you've been asked this in other venues.
Why are you inventing Yet Another Tape Image Format????
Why don't you just use the SimH format, and write your tools to work
with that? from trailing-edge, which are in a format somewhat
similar to yours).
- Dave