lwilson@umabco.UUCP (Lowell G. Wilson) (10/21/89)
We have recently acquired a DEC Microvax with a cartridge tape drive.
Unfortunately, it turns out that one of the applications we wish to
mount on the beast is only distributed on 1/2" reel tapes. In order to
load the program and data files the first time we got hold of someone
who has a Vax with both reel and cartridge tape drives and had him copy
the stuff for us. This was fine once but we don't want to be forever
bothering this guy. Our department has an IBM 4341 system running under
VM which is capable of reading the 1/2" tape reels. Since the IBM and
the DEC are both hooked up to our departmental ethernet, and since we
have TCP/IP running on both, we thought we could just copy the stuff on
the tapes onto the IBM's disks and then ship them over the ethernet to
the DEC box. We have done that with lots of other files and things have
always worked out just fine. However, the files that our vendor is
sending us are save_sets that were created with the VMS backup utility.
We were told that such a transfer could be done easily if we were
running Wollongong TCP/IP on both machines. However, we are only
running Wollongong on the DEC box so that kills that option!
Anyone have any ideas? We're REAL novices with the VAX so we would
appreciate any help at all...
Thanks.
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Lowell Wilson : Sinecure III University of Maryland at Baltimore
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