[Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?

[Zane Healy]

If it was applicable to the situation, then VMSTPC would work great.  It’s already installed on my Alpha, and I’m pretty sure there is a VAX binary for it in the VAX directory on there.  I also have it installed on my RSX-11M+.  It’s definitely a great tool.  Just not for this. :-)

Zane


> On Jan 25, 2018, at 2:54 PM, Armistead, Jason <Jason.Armistead at otis.com> wrote:
> 
> Zane
> 
> The program that Johnny is thinking of is VMSPTC
> 
> http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax86a/bnelson/vmstpc/vmstpc.c
> 
> Note sure if this is the latest, but it came up in the first set of Google search results for "VMSTPC"
> 
> Good luck
> Jason
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
> Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2018 5:48 PM
> To: Zane Healy; Tim Shoppa
> Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] VAX Tape Emulation?
> 
> Zane - unless I remember wrong, there is a tool from DECUS to copy tapes to a file image, and then get that back to a tape again. The RSX version is called TPC, and I'm pretty sure it also exists for VMS.
> 
> Using that, pull your physical tapes into files, copy the files over to the simulated machines, and write them back out to simulated tapes there.
> 
>   Johnny