[HECnet] SIMH TOPS-20 question

[Thomas DeBellis]

Let me know how you make out with that.  If worse comes to worst, let me 
know and I will grab the tape, restore the files and give you an 
ANONYMOUS FAL pointer to grab them.

On 12/24/21 5:48 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>
> That would only work for a Tops-20 labeled or ANSI labeled tape.
>
> You want to run DUMPER, then
>
>         tape mt0:
>         rewind
>         print tty:
>
> The tapes are not in TPC format, they are in TPS format (if the 
> extention is .TAP, .TPS or TPE)
>
> On 12/24/21 4:46 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> On Dec 24, 2021, at 3:17 PM, Peter Lothberg<roll at stupi.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Take MRC's "Panda distribution" if you just want
>>> it up and runnning.  I'ts somwhere on trailing edge..
>>>
>>> -P
>> What I'm trying to do is fill out the missing bits of the TOPS-20 4.1 DECnet Phase II system I have.  I think tape image BB-D867E-BM.tap is the relevant kit.
>>
>> When I attached it in TPC format I get some messages that look scary but perhaps they are just confusing.  I don't know how to ask TOPS-20 what it sees on the tape, though.  "dir mt0:" complains that someone else owns the tape.
>>
>> 	paul
>>
>>
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