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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><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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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext"> owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE>
<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> hecnet@Update.UU.SE<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" color="black" face="Calibri"><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" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bob<br>
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