U C N V R T  V 0


UCNVRT WILL ALLOW THE USER TO CONVERT FROM AND TO PDP-15 AND

OS/8 DECTAPES FOR THE ASS/DOS AND OS/8 OPERATING SYSTEMS, RE-

SPECTIVELY.  THE GENERAL DEVICE NAME TO BE USED FOR AN OS/8

TAPE IS 'ODU:' WHERE 'OD' STANDS FOR 'OS/8 DECTAPE' AND 'U'

STANDS FOR THE UNIT NUMBER ON WHICH THE OS/8 TAPE IS MOUNTED (ANY

NUMBER FROM 0-7 MUST BE SUBSTITUTED).  THE GENERAL DEVICE NAME

FOR AN ASS/DOS TAPE IS 'FDU:' WHERE 'FD' STANDS FOR 'FIFTEEN

DECTAPE' AND 'U' IS THE UNIT NUMBER OF THE PDP-15 TAPE.  THE

COLON MUST ALWAYS BE TYPED.

A PDP-15 FILE NAME IS OF THE FORM 'FILNAM.EXT' WHERE 'FILNAM'

REPRESENTS A 1-6 CHARACTER FILE NAME, AND 'EXT' REPRESENTS A

0-3 CHARACTER EXTENSION.  SINCE UCNVRT IGNORES SPACES IN THE

COMMAND LINE, USE A '.' TO SEPARATE THE FILE NAME AND EXTENSION.

A PDP-8 FILE NAME IS OF THE FORM 'FILNAM.EX' WHERE 'FILNAM'

REPRESENTS A 1-6 CHARACTER FILE NAME AND 'EX' REPRESENTS A 0-2

CHARACTER EXTENSION.

EXAMPLES:

	TO CONVERT FILE 'A SRC' FROM A PDP-15 TAPE MOUNTED ON

UNIT 1 TO FILE 'A.PA' ON AN OS/8 TAPE ON UNIT 0, TYPE:

	OD0:A.PA_FD1:A.SRC

	TO CONVERT FILE 'UCNVRT.PA' FROM AN OS/8 TAPE MOUNTED

ON UNIT 3 TO FILE 'UCNVRT SRC' ON A PDP-15 TAPE ON UNIT

7, TYPE:

	FD7:UCNVRT.SRC_OD3:UCNVRT.PA

IN ALL CASES '<' MAY BE SUBSTITUTED FOR '_'.  ALL TAPES TO BE

USED IN THE CONVERSION PROCESS MUST HAVE BEEN ZEROED ON THE

HOST MACHINE (I.E. A ASS/DOS DIRECTORY MUST APPEAR ON THE

PDP-15 TAPE AND AN OS/8 DIRECTORY MUST BE ON THE PDP-8 TAPE).