EVERHART%ARISIA@rca.COM.UUCP (03/30/87)
To read BRU tapes under VMS you first need VAX/RSX, some version. Then use the BRU utility that's in that package. To read onto an ODS-2 disk from BRU tapes, pre-create the directories (in the MFD) that you'll need, with desired ownership. You may well need bypass privs to get file ownerships created as in the originals. You should make SURE however that you have LOG_IO and PHY_IO privs turned OFF in your process, to guard against any brain damage that may otherwise occur. Just tell bru /NOINI as one of its' switches also and it'll create files quite happily. Creating BRU tape on VMS is trickier; you need an ODS-1 disk volume. I'd suggest the VDDRIVER package I put on the fall '86 VAX SIG tapes as a useful tool in that case; you can make a virtual disk the size you need and IT can be ODS-1 while the bulk of your disk storage remains ODS-2. Glenn Everhart Everhart%Arisia.decnet@ge-crd.arpa