On April 4, 2019 1:21:37 PM PDT, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote: >That looks like standard RMS:VAR records, implied carriage control. >That means: each line is preceded by a 2 byte little endian length, and >line ends are not actually in the file but implicit between each line. > > paul > >> On Mar 26, 2019, at 5:54 PM, Ron Young <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi All: >> >> I want to load some programs from the vax82b decus "tape" into my >> simh/vax/vms 7.3 system. VMS is installed and running. >> >> I normally would download the tape image and mount it in simh/vms >and >> copy/restore. Unfortunately, I can't find any tape images for >vax82b. >> There are zip files located on >> https://eisner.decus.org/repository/master/vms/library/. >> >> However when I ftp the files over to vms, the record type is messed >up >> (displays 2 bytes of "garbage" and doesn't see the end of line). >Looking >> at a linux dump of the first couple of lines (shown below). >> >> Any ideas on how I can fix this, or where tapes images are located? >> >> thanks >> -ron >> >> >> $ od -ao --endian=little apl.v30 | more >> 0000000 , nul soh nul ht P R O G R A M sp sp sp >sp >> 000054 000001 050011 047522 051107 046501 020040 >020040 >> 0000020 a p l sp ! ! V e r sp 3 . 0 , sp >F >> 070141 020154 020441 062526 020162 027063 026060 043040 >> 0000040 a l l sp 1 9 8 2 sp D E C U S gs >nul >> 066141 020154 034461 031070 042040 041505 051525 >000035 >> 0000060 stx nul c + ht ht M a i n sp A P L sp >d >> 000002 025543 004411 060515 067151 040440 046120 >062040 >> 0000100 r i v e r sp p r o g r a m nul eot >nul >> 064562 062566 020162 071160 063557 060562 000155 >000004 >> 0000120 etx nul c ; , nul eot nul c ; ht I n i t >a >> 000003 035543 000054 000004 035543 044411 064556 >060564 >> >> >=============================================================================== >> Ron Young [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Thanks... Is there any way to change the file attributes to match the var records? When I unzip the files on vms the length bytes show up as characters. This is just for my future info, I wrote a Linux c program to doe the conversion. Thanks -ron -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
