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Rob,<div><br></div><div>I think there is a way to do what you want without network support on your SIMH VAX.</div><div><br></div><div>I assume you can read your .tap file on a SIMH VAX/VMS system. Backup save sets on mag tape use ANSI labeled tape format, which is supported by standard VMS DCL MOUNT, COPY operations -- you don't have to use Backup to read back the tape on to disk.</div><div><br></div><div>MOUNT your .tap mag tape (/OVERRIDE=IDENT if you don't know the volume name). Do NOT use MOUNT /FOREIGN.</div><div><br></div><div>COPY *.* from the mag tape to a disk directory. (If there are multiple save set files on the tape, repeat the following steps for each one.)</div><div><br></div><div>Find out how many disk blocks the save set file uses from the DCL DIRECTORY/FULL command. (You want the no. of blocks used, not the number allocated.)</div><div><br></div><div>Shutdown the SIMH VAX and connect a spare RQ device to a SIMH disk container file that is exactly the same number of blocks. For example, SET -L RQ2 RAUSER=4000, ATTACH RQ2 SAVESET.BCK, for a 4000 block save set file.</div><div><br></div><div>Reboot your SIMH VAX.</div><div><br></div><div>MOUNT/FOREIGN RQ2: and COPY the save set file to RQ2:.</div><div><br></div><div>Shut down the SIMH VAX.</div><div><br></div><div>Transfer the SIMH disk container file to your real VMS system in block mode, like an .EXE or PDF file.</div><div><br></div><div>On your real VMS system, use the SET FILE /ATTRIBUTES command to fix the file attributes of the file to match the file attributes from the DIRECTORY/FULL command.</div><div><br></div><div>With luck, you'll have your Backup save set on your real VMS system intact. BACKUP/LIST saveset/SAVE will list the contents.</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Larry Baker</div><div>US Geological Survey</div><div>650-329-5608</div><div><a href="mailto:baker@usgs.gov">baker@usgs.gov</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 4, 2009, at 9:00 AM, <a href="mailto:simh-request@trailing-edge.com">simh-request@trailing-edge.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Message: 1</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 10:57:57 +0100</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: "Robert Jarratt" <<a href="mailto:robert.jarratt@ntlworld.com">robert.jarratt@ntlworld.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: [Simh] Recovering VMS Savesets from .tap files</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To: <<a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Message-ID: <001501c9b50b$d6052960$820f7c20$@<a href="mailto:jarratt@ntlworld.com">jarratt@ntlworld.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have a .tap file that contains VMS BACKUP savesets. I need to get these</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">savesets onto a real VAX. Is there a way to do this from the real VAX</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">itself? I know I could use the simulated VAX to do this, but the problem is</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">then getting the file across to the real VAX. My last attempt to use TCP/IP</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">with SIMH was a disaster, the winpcap install trashed my machine and I am</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">wary of repeating the experience.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Rob</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>