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
- This will build:
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: osibert@siliconkeep.com
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 <trnsz@pobox.com>
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