gideon@jeremy.dec.com (Gideon Yuval, 'phone +972-2-723355 work ,-690992 home) (04/30/87)
From a reply by Don Borsay of Raytheon: >In article <2061@sri-unix.ARPA> ubi@sri-unix.UUCP (Ron Ueberschaer) writes: >>Is there a way in VMS to write/read a tape that is compatible with the >>UN*X tar format? I'd prefer some pre-existing VMS utility such as COPY >>or BACKUP, but any *free* program would be wonderful... > >A while back, we picked a program called "vmstape" off of the net, and >have been satisfied with its performance. We generate tapes on the UNIX >side and read them on the VMS side using standard COPY. There is supposed >to be a UNIX program that handles VMS backup format as well. I saw a >reference in the mod.sources archive listing. Another fix: Vax DEC/Shell has a "tar" utility, which should be able to read TAR tapes. It is NOT free, though.