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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Why would that matter? However Glen’s program manages to do it, it is the only thing that should care about that detail since it will be writing the RMS file and then reading
it when outputting to the physical tape.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b> owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Paul Koning<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, November 19, 2021 1:00 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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How does RMS format encode tape marks? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On Nov 19, 2021, at 3:56 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <<a href="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com">Mark@infocomm.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><font color="black"><span style="color:black"> </span></font></span><font color="black"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE">owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE">owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a>><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight:bold">On
Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b>Robert Armstrong<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, November 19, 2021 12:53 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:hecnet@Update.UU.SE">hecnet@Update.UU.SE</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [HECnet] VMS progtram for real tape -> TAP --> VMS copying through clustering --> tenvax rtc</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"> 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.</span></font><font size="1" face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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