info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (07/08/85)
From: Misty Dragon E. <engvax!GORDON@cit-vax> In addition to other methods mentioned, I would add the following possibilities to moving files from VMS->UNIX->VMS: 1. Ethernet. (TCP/IP --- there are several implementations floating around, some free) This is what I use. 2. DECnet. But you need to have ULTRIX... 3. UUCP. There is a VMS UUCP around for people with UNIX licenses on the VMS machine. 4. A hardware link between your VAXen (we have a DMC-11 board in each VAX with a coax between the two and software to handle the file transfers. Gory but fast (1 megabit/second)) 5. DECShell. A totally software solution, but it does have a 'tar' that any UNIX wizard would love. I have used all of the above, and given my druthers, I'd use DECnet. (which I have only played with at DECUS). For cheap, you can't beat the frog... Gordon Howell (Misty Dragon E.) engvax!gordon@CIT-VAX.ARPA
stewart@houxf.UUCP (Bill Stewart HO 4K-435 x0705) (07/13/85)
I've found the most dependable way to be "Pretend you were
talking to an IBM machine". This is useful because everyone has to
send tapes to/from IBM machines on occasion, so every major
operating system can do it. This means you make a (boring)
non-labeled tape, LRECL=80 (80 column card-images), some blocksize
like 1680 (multiple of lrecl anyway), and maybe even EBCDIC if you
have to. On UNIX, you use the DD command; I don't know anout VMS.
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Bill Stewart ho95c!wcs AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
HO 4K-435 x0705 (201-949-0705)
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