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From: gideon@jeremy.dec.com (Gideon Yuval, 'phone +972-2-723355 work ,-690992 home)
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Subject: TAR tapes
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Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 01:34:47 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 30 01:34:47 1987
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From a reply by Don Borsay of Raytheon:
>In article <2061@sri-unix.ARPA> ubi@sri-unix.UUCP (Ron Ueberschaer) writes:
>>Is there a way in VMS to write/read a tape that is compatible with the
>>UN*X tar format?  I'd prefer some pre-existing VMS utility such as COPY 
>>or BACKUP, but any *free* program would be wonderful...
> 
>A while back, we picked a program called "vmstape" off of the net, and
>have been satisfied with its performance.  We generate tapes on the UNIX
>side and read them on the VMS side using standard COPY.  There is supposed
>to be a UNIX program that handles VMS backup format as well.  I saw a
>reference in the mod.sources archive listing.

Another fix: Vax DEC/Shell  has  a  "tar" utility, which should be able to
read TAR tapes. It is NOT free, though.