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From: mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Need Help Reading 9-Track Tapes written on a VAX.
Keywords: Read 9-Track VAX
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Date: 24 Aug 90 04:55:23 GMT
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In article <4180@pikes.Colorado.EDU> scpinker@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Scott C. Pinkerton) writes:
>Hello, I have recently received a 9-Track tape from some people working on a
>VAX.  I am using an HP9000/375 running HP-UX 7.0, with a HP7980XC.  I've tried
>a few simple approaches to read the data (ascii) off of the tape - with little
>success.  I have tried frecover, tar, and cpio to read the tape but no luck
>so far.  The tape included a data sheet with the following info:

>Save set:		GCU.SAV
>Command:		BACKUP/REWIND/LOG/IGNORE=LABEL filenames $7$MUA0:GCU.SAV
>Operating System:	VAX/VMS Version V5.3

>Does this provide enough info to allow some knowledgable sole to help read this
>data ?? 

Yes.  The tape is written in VMS backup format.  A program to read this
format was posted to one of the sources groups a few years back.  You could
try uunet or some other archive site for it.  If you have problems locating
a copy get back to me and I'll dig around and try to find what we did with
our copy.  I've never actually built it on an HP-UX system but I wouldn't
anticipate any problems.

> How are other people trading data between VAXes on 9-Track.  If there
>is a better command to use on the VAX which allows easier reading on the HP
>side that's ok too.  Does the VAX have an equivalent tar command ??

There are several tar programs available for VMS but I don't know any
details.  Sorry, its been several years since we've had to ship files
between VMS and UNIX boxes other than over the network.

cheers
mark