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Tools useful when using or migrating to or from a simh simulator environment
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README: Mention missing rawtap as an extractor #19

Closed ambiamber closed 1 year ago

ambiamber commented 1 year ago

I received a tap file and it took me a while to find a decoder. Hopefully mentioning that rawtap is able to do what I wanted will help other people.

markpizz commented 1 year ago

Hi there. This is certainly a reasonable request.

I was wondering what you actually used this tool for? Did you want to extract things from a tap file or put them into such a file? What simulator did you then use the tap file with, and what OS was it running?

You've now gotten me to look closely at this simtool. I noticed that, in general it wouldn't work right if compiled on Windows since the tap file is a binary format file and the default open mode on Windows is text. On *nix platforms this doesn't matter, but I've now fixed it.

Meanwhile, in case you didn't notice the commit message format for this repo is:

affected-component: Summary form commit message-less than 80 characters \<blank-line-if-additional-commit-message-content> \<optional-additional message wrapped less than 80 per line>

So for this change, the commit would be: README: Mention missing rawtap as an extractor

Will you please pick up the latest state in the master branch and then commit your small change hopefully using either your normal name and email address or at least put your full name in your github profile (public email not needed). Then force push your new commit to this PR.

Thanks.

ambiamber commented 1 year ago

I was wondering what you actually used this tool for?

extracting v8.tap and v8jerq.tap and 4.1_BSD_19810710-modified.tap

Did you want to extract things from a tap file

yes

or put them into such a file?

no

What simulator did you then use the tap file with, and what OS was it running?

N/A