On 28 Jul 2005 at 15:35, Mike Gemeny wrote:
I am not sure what it is, but it looks like RTE stuff.
The stuff under the "RTECSL" directory is the entire contributed software
library for the 21xx series of computers -- from 2114s up through A-series
1000s. Over 2000 programs. The later stuff runs under RTE, but the CSL
has a fair number of DOS, BCS, and standalone absolute binaries too. The
first release (rev2001) contains all of the programs that HP had
accumulated in their contributed library before they turned it over to
Interex.
I've posted a list of the CSL programs and short descriptions, obtained
earlier from Interex, at:
http://www.bcpl.net/~dbryan/dropbox/csl-index.html
Note that the pair of numbers following the description references the
associated FST file, e.g., program "AB2MI" has the codes "4230 B034",
so
it's in the file "rev4230_b034.fst" in the library.
In fact, one of the files (rev4030_z007.fst) contains the complete, final
release of RTE-6/VM. Unfortunately, you need an existing (if earlier)
version of RTE-6/VM to install it on a bare system, and it's licensed only
to run on HP hardware (i.e., no SIMH).
The CSL is stored in HP's "FST" archive format. Fortunately, FST is near
enough to "tar" to be readable (by GNU tar, at least). Unfortunately, HP
filenames contain characters that are illegal as filenames under most other
systems (e.g., ">" and "<" are legal and common in HP
filenames). I've
used tar under the Cygwin emulation layer for Windows and its "managed
mode" file handling to allow HP filenames to be restored. It also wouldn't
be that hard to modify a tar source to do character substitutions.
-- Dave