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<p> Now that is a clever hack - hadn't considered doing that.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Bob<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/19/21 12:56 PM, Mark Pizzolato -
Info Comm wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">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></o:p></span></font></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE">owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Robert
Armstrong<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
Friday, November 19, 2021 12:53 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hecnet@Update.UU.SE">hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [HECnet] VMS progtram for real tape -> TAP
--> VMS copying through clustering --> tenvax
rtc<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"> 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></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Calibri" color="black"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">Bob<br>
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