Wanted: SIMH VAX VMS tape image tester, take 2

[Al Kossow]

On 12/18/14 11:07 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Okay, I think I've gotten the SIMH image thing straightened out--and I've added a descriptive record after the EOM marker in the image.

looks OK, but it may be difficult to parse, and I'm a little confused by the use of double-quote.
":" is a LEADING keyword identifier?


<block length>

TAPEINFO<lf><lf>
:Image-file-creator STP2TAP 0.01<lf>
:Original-Host DEC VAX VMS<lf>
:Tape-Density  1600 PE<lf>
:Tape-Description  10.5" Scotch 700<lf>   Label is "FORT 1600 BPI 10/21/86<lf>            2 Same Sets  FORT045.A<lf>                         FHLP045.A   3M"

<block length>



How do you tell when the Tape-Description string ends?
What happens if there is a keyword after a Tape-Description string, or a ":" in any string?

Bad block information would be inside this record as well?

The problem is you can't change anything in the tape image itself for bad blocks, otherwise
it isn't backwards compatible.