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Subject: Re: Request for VMS to UNIX file tranfer program
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 16:11:21 EST
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In article <8602121357.AA10194@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> you write:
>I am working on a vms4.2 system.  I need a stand alone tar or
>dump program to easy file transfer from my computer to a Unix
>System.  Do you know of any available, preferably public domain.
>Thanks much in advance.
>        Michael Cohen --- Boston University


You might try a product from DEC called DECSHELL.  It is a Bourne Shell
which you can choose to replace DCL on a VMS/VAX.  It is suppose to
(I haven't tried it) have a tar command built in to read/write tar tapes.

It is hardly public domain.

			tom campbell
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