Re: [Simh] Announcement: back10

2017-02-14 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
Rich Alderson wrote: > Is the evacuate format really used in ITS, or is it an artefact of > putting ITS files on Unix file systems? No, it's not used in ITS. It's just for storing ITS files in a Unix file system, and it has these properties: 1. Binary files are preserved, i.e. survive a round tr

Re: [Simh] Announcement: back10

2017-02-14 Thread Rich Alderson
> From: Lars Brinkhoff > Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:42:00 +0100 > Johnny Eriksson wrote: >> This is very much a work-in-progress, so things might change. If >> you have any opinion on how things should work, please let me know. > If there's one thing I'd wish for, it would be for a standard enc

Re: [Simh] Announcement: back10

2017-02-14 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
Johnny Eriksson wrote: > This is very much a work-in-progress, so things might change. If > you have any opinion on how things should work, please let me know. If there's one thing I'd wish for, it would be for a standard encoding of binary 36-bit data into octets. FTP uses high density format.

[Simh] Announcement: back10

2017-02-14 Thread Johnny Eriksson
I have spent some time recently on updating my program(s) to handle Tops-10 backup tape images, and I am now at the stage when it seems to work "good enough", so I decided to release this as a beta test. http://www.pdc.kth.se/~bygg/tops/back10.tar The basic things work, it can create (-c), do d