[HECnet] VMS progtram for real tape -> TAP --> VMS copying through clustering --> tenvax rtc

[Robert Armstrong]

   I haven't looked, but I'd guess that it does the same thing simh does 
- zero length records.

Bob

On 11/19/21 12:59 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> How does RMS format encode tape marks?
>
> paul
>
>> On Nov 19, 2021, at 3:56 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm 
>> <Mark at infocomm.com <mailto:Mark at infocomm.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
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>> <mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE>>*On Behalf Of*Robert Armstrong
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>> *Subject:*Re: [HECnet] VMS progtram for real tape -> TAP --> VMS 
>> copying through clustering --> tenvax rtc
>>
>>   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.
>>
>> Bob
>>
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