[HECnet] Future problems?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-07-15 19:10, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
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>> On Jul 15, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> FLX accessing DOS tapes will "fail" at 2035.
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> That figures, because the RSTS date format was taken from DOS-11.  I assume you meant magtape; DECtape runs into trouble in 2002 because there the date is only 15 bits (the sign bit is used to mark a contiguous file).

I'm not even sure if FLX under RSX can access DOS DECtapes... I think 
FLX only supports DOS magtape format. For disks, it only deals with 
RT-11 format, I think. I didn't even know that there was a DOS-11 disk 
format, but thinking about it, it would seem obvious there should be one.

	Johnny