<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="">My mistake, I thought the comment was about standard VMS tape copying programs.<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 4:16 PM, Robert Armstrong <<a href="mailto:bob@jfcl.com" class="">bob@jfcl.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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simh does - zero length records.</p><p class="">Bob<br class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/19/21 12:59 PM, Paul Koning
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How does RMS format encode tape marks?
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<div class="">On Nov 19, 2021, at 3:56 PM, Mark Pizzolato -
Info Comm <<a href="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Mark@infocomm.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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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
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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="" moz-do-not-send="true">owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">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
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<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>
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<div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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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 class="" size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Bob<br class="">
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