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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-11-19 21:52, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>    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.

Actually, that is the same as the plain tpc file format used by e11 and 
simh, if you can just get the file image across without any change at 
all, and have the record length information also preserved.

If this was RSX, I could certainly help in more ways, but my VMS-fu is 
very rusty.

   Johnny

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