On 2019-04-04 22:21, Paul Koning 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.
No. It looks a little more complicated than that.
It's certainly variable length records as you say. However, after the
size is the record number, and after that comes the data.
Relative file with variable length records maybe?
Johnny
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]
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