Brilliant. Thanks for the reminder. It's all crystal clear to me now :). Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 5:02 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > > Repeat after me: tapes are not streams of bytes. See Clem's response for more > detail. :-) > > Johnny > >> On 2017-11-07 20:58, Will Senn wrote: >> Hi, >> I think I may have asked this a couple of years ago, but I am unable to find >> the email conversation, so I'll ask it again from a position of experience >> and greater but still lacking knowledge... here's the background - I am >> running a v7 instance in simh that I am quite pleased with. However, I saw >> somewhere where someone was running some additional software on their >> instance and of course, I just had to have it for my own. Unfortunately, >> it's not clear how they got the software, where it's from, or how they got >> it running. There are hints that the stuff came from early bsd. So... I >> thought I would try getting the bsd source on to my v7 instance to see if I >> could compile it and play around with it. There's a 1bsd.tar.gz in the tuhs >> archive. It being a tar file, I figured I could: >> gunzip 1bsd.tar.gz >> in simh: >> att mt0 1bsd.tar >> in v7, which defaults to mt1 for some reason, (not a configured device on my >> system and isn't created by make tm in /dev): >> tar vxfb /dev/rmt0 1 >> nboot.ini-13> boot rp0 >> Invalid magtape record length, PC: 002400 (MOV 177776,R0) >> or >> tar xv0 >> nboot.ini-13> boot rp0 >> Invalid magtape record length, PC: 002400 (MOV 177776,R0) >> I don't know why the nboot.ini-13> boot rp0 artifact is appearing (prolly >> some buffer flush when the sim aborts)... but of more concern is why I can't >> access the tar. I'm sure it is a gap in my understanding, so I'd appreciate >> some help. >> Thanks, >> Will >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> Simh@trailing-edge.com >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > > > -- > Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus > || on a psychedelic trip > email: b...@softjar.se || Reading murder books > pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
