Andreas Holz wrote:
> Christopher,
>
> some questions to your program:
>
> what does the statement do:
>
> read(infile,&reclen,4); ?
>
> this syntax does not conform to UNIX (POSIX) read (e.g. HP/UX):
>
> ssize_t read(int filedes, void *buf, size_t nbyte);
>
> Are these ".tap" files some kind of a standard format?
>
> Background: I got some files which are claiming to be in a ".tap"
> format and I would like to write the to tape!
If these ".tap" files are those used by simh, then the format is
really fairly simple, and documented here.
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/papers.html
or, slightly more directly
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/simh_magtape.pdf
Received on Wed Jun 18 2003 - 12:51:01 BST