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From: jrredho@sandia.gov (John Red-horse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: VMS BACKUP Revisited
Keywords: Software
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Date: 22 Aug 89 22:53:00 GMT
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Hello,

Thanks to all that sent replies regarding my question on reading VMS
backup formatted files on my SUN.  Almost all referred me to a program by
John Douglass Carey and Sven-Ove Westberg that is available at
uunet.uu.net.  There is a problem with this however.  I had obtained a
copy of this utility some time ago and found that it reads VMS backup
*TAPES* and that it does it quite well.  However, the tape interface is
fairly hard-wired into the code.  My problem is that I need to be able to
read savesets that are *FILES*, shipped, for example, to my SUN via
kermit.  I'm reasonably sure that the generalization of this utility is
straightforward for someone who is familiar with many of the inherent
difficulties... I only hope that someone else has already found a need to
do so.

Cheers,


John Red-Horse                           INTERnet:JRRedho@sandia.gov
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