Path: utzoo!lsuc!sickkids!mark
From: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: reading PRO 3xx disks on a PC/AT
Message-ID: <98@sickkids.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 88 11:11:09 GMT
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Reply-To: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
Organization: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
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	EVERHART%ARISIA.DECnet@GE-CRD.ARPA writes:      andrew Message-IDs! ]

>    [ ... ]  a program called GETRSX is available. It has even appeared
> somewhere in the DECUS library, though probably on a SIG tape (read those
> abstracts CAREFULLY). Its purpose in life is to read ODS-1 file
> structures (which the pro uses) and grab files off them under different
> OS's. It was written for unix or rt-11 (don't know which), but again
> since the C sources ARE available, some hacking ought to get it across.

It was originally written for UNIX (by me, based on an earlier version by
Rob Pike), and submitted to the DECUS UNISIG and RT-11 SIG tapes.  The RT
submission was simply a copy of the UNIX version, with nothing done to it
to make it actually work under RT-11.  I just put it there in hopes that
someone would feel motivated to make the (minor(?)) changes that would be
needed, as people had been harping at DEC for years to give RT-11's FILEX
the ability to read RSX disks, so it seemed likely that there would be some
demand for it.  Sure enough, some guy in Florida did it (and also, I recall,
provided an RT-style command line syntax to replace the UNIX-style one that
the original program had), and submitted that version to the DECUS library.
You can get it by ordering 11-646.  Or, if you'd prefer, I'll gladly send
the original UNIX version to anyone who wants it (e-mail only, please).  By
the way, there is also a "getvms" program which reads ODS-2 volumes, though
I believe that ODS-2 has changed somewhat since I wrote the program (seven
or eight years ago, I think), so I can't guarantee that it will work without
a bit of twiddling.

Mark Bartelt                         UUCP: {utzoo,decvax,ihnp4}!sickkids!mark
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto  BITNET: mark@sickkids.utoronto
416/598-6442                         INTERNET: mark@sickkids.toronto.edu

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