write decwar tap file using back10

[statespacedev]

found the back10 source via gunkies.org and https://www.pdc.kth.se/~bygg/tops/
just committed it to the repo https://github.com/drforbin/decwar/tree/minimalist/docs/tops703/back10
looking through it now - looks like it's a combo of simh tool 'backup.c' - used that yesterday to read a tap file
and 'backwr.c' to write a tap file...
rich, don't want to bug you on christmas:) but in case you're around -
do you have any examples of using back10 ya can share - nice tricks you like to use for tap files in 'the library'?:)

[statespacedev]

looks like these two commands are enough to get rolln, list and create a tap file -
can try creating a tap file for 'scripted install':)

noah@raspberrypi:~/tops703/tapes $ mkdir testdir
noah@raspberrypi:~/tops703/tapes $ cp *.txt testdir
noah@raspberrypi:~/tops703/tapes $ ./back10 -cf ./test.tap testdir/*
noah@raspberrypi:~/tops703/tapes $ ./back10 -lf ./test.tap
25-Dec-2024 02:41:53  <***>  test2.txt
25-Dec-2024 02:41:53  <***>  test.txt

ahha! duh!:)

noah@raspberrypi:~/tops703/tapes $ ./back10 -h
Usage: ./back10 [action] [options] [args]

    Action is one of the following:

    -c           -- create a backup tape containing the files in arglist.

    -l           -- list files on tape.
    -p           -- peek at tape data.
    -s           -- show the structure of the tape.
    -t           -- type file list as .DIR MTA0: does.
    -x           -- extract files matching any of the args in arglist,
                    or any regexp given to a -R option.

    Options are:

    -b           -- build tree of output files.  (extract)
    -d           -- omit device from output tree.  (extract)
    -f <file>    -- operate on tape file for input/output.
                    "-" means stdin/stdout.
    -h           -- print help text.
    -i           -- interchange flag.
    -n           -- number of items to print.  (peek)
    -q           -- quiet (extract)
    -v           -- increase verbose mode.

    -A           -- set disk mode to ascii.
    -B           -- set disk mode to binary.
    -C           -- set disk mode to core-dump.
    -D           -- turn on debugging.
    -H           -- set disk mode to high-density.
    -I           -- set disk mode to industri-standard.
    -M <str>     -- set system name.  (write)
    -O opt=val   -- set option to value.
    -P <bits>    -- set/clear print control bits.  (peek)
    -R <exp>     -- set regexp of files to match.  (extract, list)
    -S <str>     -- set SaveSet name.  (write)
    -T <fmt>     -- set tape container format.
                    format is raw, tap, e11 or tpc.
                    default is tap.
    -U <str>     -- set device and UFD. (write)
                    format is "device:p,pn".