22 May
2014
22 May
'14
10:02 p.m.
I've been reading the SIMH TAP file specification and there's something
that's not clear to me. Perhaps someone can volunteer their knowledge.
I've got a tape where about half the records (blocks) are an odd number
of bytes long. The SIMH document says that a block is padded to an even
number of bytes in this case. However, it doesn't say if the record
length (32-bit) word is adjusted to reflect this--or if the byte count
is rounded up to the nearest even byte.
It seems to me that the former would be the way to go, but I'm not sure.
If the latter course is taken, the information that the block is an
odd number of bytes long is gone.
Does anyone know for certain?
Thanks,
Chuck