YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("Yates, John H.") (10/03/90)
(Sorry to post this to everyone, but there were too many interested people to keep track of along the line). Tony Silva (tsilva%aaec1.uucp@dspvax.mit.edu) solved the vmsbackup single file restore problem. The trick: >O.K. I've finally got the answer for extracting selected files. Try >something like: > > vmsbackup -xvcde '?BIN?ASC2BIN.EXE;1' for extracting [BIN]ASC2BIN.EXE;1 > ... or > > vmsbackup -xvcde '*ASC2BIN.EXE*' I opted for on our SGI: vmsbackup -xvf /dev/rmt/xmt0d0.1600 '?JY.TEX?STORY.TEX;1' and it worked! btw, on sgi the following if test modification was used in vmsbackup.c (this got it to work, giving directories and extracting a whole save set). (also thanks to Tony) #if defined(sun) || defined(sgi) #define SWAP #endif John yates@c.chem.upenn.edu P.S. Now, I hope it can pick up in the middle of the second thru last tapes of a save set. Will try tomorrow.