BAN-AI-Multics / mxload

Read Multics standard-format tapes, reload data, produce maps, unpack archives, Forum meetings, message segments, and mailboxes.

mxload

Overview

The mxload software can read Multics standard-format tapes, reload data, produce maps, unpack archives, Forum meetings, message segments, and mailboxes.

License

Copyright © 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, Oxford Systems, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Reproduction permitted provided this notice is retained.

Distribution

• doc
  • Reference manual source code and manual pages (troff)
• pdf
  • Documentation and papers (Portable Document Format)
• src
  • Source code for building the mxload software
• test
  • Test cases

Build

• To build mxload, type "make".
  • This will build:
    • mxload
    • mxmap
    • mxarc
    • mxmbx
    • mxforum
    • mxascii
    • pr8bit
    • documentation

Review the Makefile contents for additional build information.

Original Authors

mxload is owned and distributed by:

Oxford Systems, Inc.
30 Ingleside Road
Lexington, Massachusetts
U. S. A.     02420-2522

Phone:   + 1 781 863 5549
E-mail:  [e-mail]

Release History

 1.2a3  2023-01-23   Make WORDALIGN the default  again in src/GNUmakefile.

 1.2a2  2023-01-23   Clean up  some warnings  and a fix a possible  crash.

 1.2a1  2021-06-05   Automated  reformatting,   restyling,   source   code
                     normalization,  Markdown  conversion,   and  Makefile
                     generation.  Supports  only POSIX-like UNIX  systems.
                     ALPHA - complaints to Jeff Johnson  <[e-mail]>

 1.1.1  2004-11-15   Released  for  general  use.   No  software  changes.

 1.1    1993-10-31   Major  restructuring of  I/O to  support reading from
                     standard  input,  needed  for systems  with poor tape
                     device drivers (specifically, Sequent).  Minor memory
                     management fixes.

 1.0.5  1991-12-20   Bug  fix  for  local  map  generation  ("-l" option).

 1.0.4  1991-12-03   Changed to make WORDALIGN the default in the Makefile
                     (now works out of the box on SPARC, etc.). Bug fix to
                     WORDALIGN gettype.c to declare a missing variable and
                     loop through 8 bytes instead of 9.

 1.0.3  1990-10-22   Bug fix to preserving broken archives as files rather
                     than discarding them. Includes "WORDALIGN" definition
                     in  the Makefile  to  fix  word  alignment  problems.

 1.0.2  1989-10-24   Bug fix for mxmbx handling old (V4) message segments.

 1.0.1  1989-05-26   Bug fix for tape buffer issue, revised documentation.

 1.0    1989-01-13   Initial release.

TODO

• Add test cases, make test target
• make install target
• Document build and runtime requirements
• Fix groff warnings (and nroff errors)
• Direct support for dps8m simulator and SIMH tapes
• Review output of (and appease) ccc-analyzer