levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) (01/16/88)
Ho, hackers! I'm interested in finding a UNIX program which can read VMS BACKUP tapes (that is, the files archived therein). I already have a copy of a UNIX program which can read Files-11 tapes, but this doesn't gain me anything with VMS BACKUP tapes except to be able to read in the whole BACKUP saveset file. (It doesn't help me to extract the files from a BACKUP saveset.) Also, it can't deal with multi-volume backups. Yes, yes, I know about the VMS TAR programs. I'm not concerned about how to get data from VMS to UNIX systems. What I am concerned about is mountains of old VMS backups, which may possibly need to have data retrieved from them even after we have kissed our VMS systems good-bye. Any ideas? (I'm not picky as to the kind of hardware or version of UNIX system this would run on, as I am willing to modify the program as needed.) Thanks in advance.... -- |------------Dan Levy------------| Path: ..!{akgua,homxb,ihnp4,ltuxa,mvuxa, | an Engihacker @ | <most AT&T machines>}!ttrdc!ttrda!levy | AT&T Computer Systems Division | Disclaimer? Huh? What disclaimer??? |--------Skokie, Illinois--------|
hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) (01/16/88)
In article <2089@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
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* I'm interested in finding a UNIX program which can read VMS BACKUP tapes
* (that is, the files archived therein)...
Sorry dan, I can't help you with your request, but I have a related request,
sort of the exact opposite of yours:
Does anyone out there know where I can find a version of ar(1) that will
run under VMess? I bounce this request off of the decus newsgroup a month
or so ago with no success.
Thanks for any help...
-Mike Marshall hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu ...!hubcap!hubcapdboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes) (01/18/88)
In article <863@hubcap.UUCP> hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) writes: >In article <2089@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes: >* >* I'm interested in finding a UNIX program which can read VMS BACKUP tapes >* (that is, the files archived therein)... //SYSIN DD * There was a good VMSBACKUP reader posted to comp.sources.misc not too long ago -- check at uunet or in the DECUS archives for Unix systems. I'll look around -- I think we have a copy somewhere. /* -- David Boyes | ARPA: 556%OREGON1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Systems Division | BITNET: 556@OREGON1 UO Computing Center | UUCP: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP 'How long d'ya think it'll be before just us oldtimers remember WISCVM?'
cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher F. Chiesa) (01/19/88)
In article <1440@uoregon.UUCP>, dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes) writes: > In article <863@hubcap.UUCP> hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) writes: > >In article <2089@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes: [ various stuff deleted] > > //SYSIN DD * This brings back memories of CS231 class (IBM Assembly Language Program- ming, part II) here at BSU... One night after a long programming session on the IBM system, I woke up from a deep sleep about 4AM and yelled out "SYSIN DD asterisk!" Don't know WHAT I must have been dreaming about... C.C.
berry@jhereg..ARPA (Berry Kercheval) (01/21/88)
In article <1896@bsu-cs.UUCP> cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher F. Chiesa) writes: >In article <1440@uoregon.UUCP>, dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes) writes: >> In article <863@hubcap.UUCP> hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) writes: >> > [ various stuff deleted] >> //SYSIN DD * > This brings back memories [ more stuff deleted ] Indeed. Ah, memories. For a long time my prompt on ol' zinfandel was //STEP.123 EXEC PGM= (where the "123" was the current csh event number.) This was only privately amusing, until one day an "old" IBM hacker (turned toward Unix and the light side of the Force) came by my office for something and saw my prompt. "What the HELL are you running there?!?!" he asked. "4.1BSD" I said. Took him nearly a full minute to figure it out... hee hee. -- Berry Kercheval -- berry@mordor.s1.gov -- {ucbvax!decwrl,siesmo}!mordor!berry Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Special Studies Program ("O" division)