[comp.unix.wizards] reading vms dumper tapes

stanonik@nprdc.arpa (Ron Stanonik) (12/23/88)

Hello,

We're trying to read a tape described as a
vms "dumper" tape.  I'm not familiar with vms
so I don't know what that means.  We've tried
the vmstape program for reading backup tapes
and the ansitape program for reading ansi tapes.
No luck.  "dumper" is something else?  Anyone
have a program for reading these?  (I checked
simtel20 and couldn't find anything.)

We're running 4.3bsd on a vax 780.

Thanks,

Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.arpa

russes@ryn.DEC.COM (Bob Russes) (01/03/89)

--

	"Dumper" used to imply that the tape was a Tops-20
backup tape, since the backup program was called "dumper".
There is a program which will read these tapes, let me know
if you need a copy.

Bob