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Subject: Reading BRU tapes on the VAX
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Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 10:26:56 EST
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>Can anyone tell me if there is a way to read BRU tapes under VMS?

If you don't already have it, buy VAX-11/RSX from Digital.  This
provides the code necessary to run RSX code on the VAX and includes
most of the RSX utilities.  BRU is part of this package.  You need
to use BRU to read its own tapes; Backup and BRU write tapes in
different formats and never the twain shall meet...

One hint: DO NOT use BRU from an account with LOG_IO privilege
enabled.  A colleague did this to his/her great chagrin: BRU
quite happily initialized and wrote ALL OVER his system disk!
Bye, bye VMS...  I've have best results with BRU by giving it
a scratch pack to write on and telling it to go ahead an init
the pack.