fsio, a file transfer application

[John Forecast]

I've been working on an application to transfer file to/from a SIMH disk image and it's now ready for an alpha release. fsio currently understands DOS/BATCH-11 and RT-11 disk file formats - the code is structured to allow the easy addition of new file systems. To install on Raspbian:

    sudo tar xzvPf fsio.tgz

this will load the executable and man pages into the /usr/local tree and 2 .txt files into the current directory. One file (fsioSimh.txt) describes how to

access RT-11 file systems under various DEC PDP-11 operating systems (and VMS) to allow files transfers in and out of the system.

This is an alpha-level release with limited testing so make sure you have a backup of your disk image(s) before using it - it could damage your image

irreparably.

Once the code seems stable I will talk to Mark about making the source available in the simh/simtools github repository.

  John.

[oscarv]

John,

That *is* useful! Confirmed working here, at least on rt11 images. That opens up a world of comfort.

Kind regards,

Oscar.

[John Forecast]

Attached is an updated version of fsio. Please still consider it an alpha release. Changes include:

    1. mount: Fix memory leak when file system verification failes

    2. dos11: Fix hang when parsing wildcard programmer number

    3. Migrate to using GNU readline library for command line editing, recall etc

    4. local: Fix buffering so that local "type" command works

    5. Adds DOS-11 magtape support using file system type "dosmt". Useful for large file (>= 32MB) transfer

    6. newfs: Remove -a switch. Replace with "-t type" switch to allow more flexibility. The equivalent of "-a" is now "-t rl02"

  John.

[johnfo...@gmail.com]

fsio is now available from the SIMH simtools repository (https://github.com/simh/simtools).

  John.