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to detect if file output is "binary" or ASCII and to write the file correctly. Mind you, the heuristic can fail :-( The original cp can now copy ASCII and binary files.
pdp7-unix
This is a project to resurrect Unix on the PDP-7 from scans of the original assembly code done by Norman Wilson. The scans of PDP-7 Unix are in the Unix Archive at http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/McIlroy_v0/ as the files 0*.pdf.
Update early March 2016: We've written an assembler, most of a user-mode simulator and commented several source files. We now have these utilities running: cat, cp, chmod, chown, chrm and ls.
Things to do: write a filesystem creation tool, write a shell, write the missing utilities, try to bring the system up on a PDP-7 system. We have a real PDP-7 and SimH as target platforms.
The code in the original scans are (c) Novell who own the rights to the Unix source code. Everything that didn't come from the scanned files is GPLv3.
scans holds the unmodified OCR versions of the scanned files
src/cmd holds the modified source code of the user-mode programs
src/sys holds the modified source code of the kernel
src/other holds PDP-7 source code which did not come from the scanned files
tools holds the source for the tools written to assist the project
misc holds miscellaneous notes and information