NAME¶

rawtap - manipulate .tap magtape container files used by SIMH

SYNOPSIS¶

rawtap -c CONTAINER [OPTIONS] FILE ...
rawtap -a CONTAINER [OPTIONS] FILE ...
rawtap -e CONTAINER ...

DESCRIPTION¶

rawtap manipulates .tap magtape container files used by SIMH. It supports three different commands:

-c

Create a new container and append the given files.

-a

Append the given files to an existing container.

-e

Extract files from one or more container files. Extracted files will be named 00001.dat, 00002.dat, and so on.

OPTIONS¶

-r LEN

Max record size to be used when writing files to the tape container. (1 <= LEN <= 65536, default 10240). The new record size applies to all following files on the command line. There may be multiple -r switches on the command line if the record size needs to be different across multiple files.

SEE ALSO¶

cpytap(1), dbtap(1)