Format of '.tap' files on bitsavers ...

[John Sambrook]

Hi Eric,

Thank you for your help.  I've had a look at your utilities
link and I'm going to give them a try.  

Best,

John Sambrook

--- Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
> John Sambrook wrote:
> > Anyone know the format of ".tap" files found on
> > www.bitsavers.org/bits/... ?
> 
> It's John Wilson's tape image file format.
> 
> A data record consists of a four byte record length, the data,
> then another copy of the record length.  The record length is stored
> in little-endian byte order.
> 
> A tape mark is fourbytes of zeros.
> 
> There are no extra padding bytes to force any alignment.
> 
> Bob Subnik's SIMH tape image file format is similar except that it
> uses 16-bit alignment.  SIMH comes with utilities to convert the
> formats.
> 
> There are also some simple tape image utilities at:
>     http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/tapeutils/
> 
> Eric
> 
> 


		
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