I've written some code for the sys status syscall in a7out but I've not tested it yet.

tools/a7out

@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ sub cal {
 				# 22 badcal
 				# 23 capt
 				# 24 rele
-				# 25 status
+        25 => \&sys_status,
 				# 26 badcal
         27 => \&sys_smes,
         28 => \&sys_rmes,
@@ -946,6 +946,61 @@ sub sys_time {
     return;
 }
 
+# Status system call
+sub sys_status {
+    # This seems to called as follows:
+    #   law statbuf
+    #   sys status; scrname; dd
+    # but I can't tell if PC+1 or PC+2 holds the filename pointer.
+    # For now, I'll use PC+1. $AC seems to hold the pointer to the statbuf
+    # which, as far as we can tell is:
+    #   word 0:    permission bits
+    #   words 1-7: disk block pointers
+    #   word 8:    user-id
+    #   word 9:    number of links
+    #   word 10:   size in words
+    #   word 11:   uniq, I have no idea what this is.
+    # The permission bits are:
+    #   200000  large file, bigger than 4096 words
+    #   000020  directory
+    #   000010  owner read
+    #   000004  owner write
+    #   000002  user write
+    #   000001  user write
+
+    # Get the start address of the string
+    # Convert this to a sensible ASCII filename
+    my $start = $Mem[ $PC + 1 ];
+    my $filename = mem2arg($start);
+    dprintf( "status file %s statbuf %06o\n", $filename, $AC );
+
+    # Get the file's details
+    my (undef,undef,$mode,$nlink,$uid,undef,undef,$size)= stat($filename);
+
+    # Set up the statbuf if we got a result
+    if ($nlink) {
+        $Mem[ $AC+8 ]= $uid & MAXINT;
+        $Mem[ $AC+9 ]= $nlink & MAXINT;
+        $Mem[ $AC+10 ]= $size & MAXINT;		# Yes, I know, not words
+
+        my $perms=0;
+	$perms=  01 if ($mode & 02);		# World writable
+	$perms|= 02 if ($mode & 04);		# World readable
+	$perms|= 04 if ($mode & 0200);		# Owner writable
+	$perms|= 010 if ($mode & 0400);		# Owner readable
+	$perms|= 020 if ( -d $filename);	# Directory
+	$perms|= 0200000 if ($size > 4096);	# Large file
+	$Mem[ $AC ] = $perms;
+        # Set AC to zero as we got something, else return -1
+	$AC= 0;
+    } else {
+        $AC= MAXINT;
+    }
+
+    $PC += 3;
+    return;
+}
+
 # Convert an 18-bit word into two ASCII characters and return them.
 # Don't return NUL characters
 sub word2ascii {