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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources
Subject: Wanted: VMS to UNIX tape conversion program
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 15:29:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  1 15:29:35 1985
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I have a tape, made on a VMS system, variously labelled "COPY format" and
"BACKUP format" which I need to read into my 4.2 system.  From looking
at it using dd, I've been able to figure out some of it, but I need to
do better.  Before I sit down with the VMS tape specs and write it
myself, does anybody already have what I need?  BTW, are the VMS 'COPY'
and 'BACKUP' formats the same thing?

One of the random pieces of documentation that came with the tape says:
"9-track, 1600-bpi, IBM compatible, 80 bytes/record, 1600 records/block,
labeled".  Does this really mean 128 kbyte blocks??  Other stuff says
"... standard labeled tape (label='progs') written with the VMS copy
command ..."
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