<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">How does RMS format encode tape marks? <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>paul<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 19, 2021, at 3:56 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <<a href="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com" class="">Mark@infocomm.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="2" face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: windowtext;" class="">You could use Glen Everhardt’s program to read the physical tape and store it locally in RMS format. Then you could move the RMS file across your cluster environment (or access it directly) on a sim VAX to write to a simh simulated tape drive. The file attached to the simh VAX simulated tape drive will be in simh format and will be readable just find on a simh KS10.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="2" face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: windowtext;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-left-color: blue; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><font size="2" face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: windowtext; font-weight: bold;" class="">From:</span></font></b><font class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE" class="">owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE" class="">owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b>Robert Armstrong<br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, November 19, 2021 12:53 PM<br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:hecnet@Update.UU.SE" class="">hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a><br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [HECnet] VMS progtram for real tape -> TAP --> VMS copying through clustering --> tenvax rtc<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="2" face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></font></div><p class=""><font size="2" face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> There's also a VMSTPCE program by Glen Everhardt that dumps magtapes to disk container files and back again, but it uses RMS variable length record files for its container. Each file record is one tape record. Not simh compatible, although I could write a program to convert to tap format.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class=""><font size="2" face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Bob<br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="2" face="Calibri" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>