I used John's routine to write and Chuck's to read an HP 1000 SIMH tape image, and the file diff came out identical, give or take a few end characters that I don't believe are part of the data. So you guys are essentially compatible as expected (16 bit machine it sure is). Marc
From: Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> Subject: Re: Writing SCSI 9-Track Mag Tapes from Windows/DOS > On 10/06/2015 11:54 AM, Rich Alderson wrote: > Of course, that's mostly true for those machines restricted to silly > octets as their native data representation. :-> And one finds odd-byte-sized records not infrequently in big iron--and then you have to ask "where do most half-inch 9-track tapes originate?" It ain't from DEC, for sure. FWIW, my routines don't bother to pad to an even byte boundary. --Chuck
