On 28 Jul 2005 at 15:35, Mike Gemeny wrote: 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

J. D. Bryan had written.... Tim responded... The entire rtecsl directory, as well as the conference directories, have been stuffed over on to the classiccmp server. I've already offered to host the Interex site free of charge. If they take me up on that, great. If they bring the site up elsewhere, then I'll ask their permission to turn on my copy of it as a mirror. If they don't wish me to, I won't. If the site disappears and never comes back, well, I'll turn on my copy to keep the library available to those in need. Jay West