HP2000 Tape Conversion

From: Bob Brown <bbrown_at_harpercollege.edu>
Date: Sat Dec 6 10:40:52 2003

How can I get this to run under hpux (the system that has my 9-track tape
drive)? I am getting compile errors when I run 'make'...it wants to find
things like tapeio.d and someother .d files (and there are .c files and 1
.h file but no .d files).

thanks!

-Bob

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Al Kossow wrote:

>
> > Any ideas how to convert a tape cut on an HP2000 into the .tap format
> > used by the SIMH hp2000 simulator?
>
> Eric Smith has a program called tapecopy that will do this under Linux
>
> .tap is <little-endian 32 bit record length> <data> <copy of record length>
> with a single byte of 0 for a tape mark.
>
> To create a .tap file from a real tape you:
>
> read a tape record
>
> if it is a tape mark, put out a byte of zero
>
> else
>
> write the record length
> write the data
> write the record length
>
>
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