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Subject: reading rt-11 tapes on vms-sumamry
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Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 18:10:00 EDT
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 This is a summary of the responses I received on this subject.

      1) Some responders alluded to a DECUS newsletter article in
         the July 1986 RT portion. Pages 3-4 were sited.

      2) Some respondents simply said $ mount/foreign msa0: xxx
           $ copy msa0:*.* temp.dat

      3) Some respondents said that it could not be done. Period.

      4) I received a call from a DEC hardware/software type in
         Minneapolis and he is very familiar with RT-11. He
         says that it will not. Period.  The rub is that it
         is not an ANSI-labelled tape and therefore the right
         parts of the header are not present. Since the DECUS
         newsletter was written by a respected gent (knowledgable)
         , I referred him to this article and he said he would
         look into it and get back to me.  He also mentioned
         something to the effect that the EXCHANGE
         utility would only honor RT-11 block addressable
         volumes, which tapes are not.

    The upshot of all this, as seems to be the case with most
hardware/software issues, is that there is a split-camp and
that some are wrong and some are right.  Meanwhile , I sit here
having tried all suggestions and barring typos in articles etc.
am still unable to read these tapes.  I guess the phenomena from
DEC's point of view is that there can exist an RT-11 installation
without a tape-drive unit(sour grapes).



Frank Simmons
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