<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//DE"><HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD><BODY><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Hi Alan,</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">if you want to image your disks and floppies for use with simh, there's an easy way to do it.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">All you need is a (Micro-)VAX having the appropriate drive(s) running VMS.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">MOUNT/FOREIGN <device-name></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">COPY/LOG <device-name> yourimagename.img</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">DISMOUNT <device-name></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Don't worry about the error message at the end of the COPY process - that's normal, just that copy discovers the end of media.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">You get an image containing all the blocks of your device in logical order - VMS will take care of the device details.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">I've done it several dozen times, it never failed (except for defective media).</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">And it even works vice versa, I often prepare images within simh and transfer them onto my real disks and floppies.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">There might be a similar way to do it with a PDP-11, too, e.g. using "dd" with ULTRIX-11, or some other tools under RT-11, RSX or RSTS. </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Will you make your images available?</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;">Regards</p>
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