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Does anyone know of any portable OpenVMS 64-bit time conversion routines written in C? I.e., that do not depend on 64-bit data types so they run on 32-bit machines? Maybe in the SIMH GitHub? Out there in the Interland?</div>
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I am writing a simtools converter that combines on-disk OpenVMS Backup save sets into a SIMH .tap image of an OpenVMS Backup ANSI tape volume. I want to use the date the backup was done from the Backup save set header for the ANSI HDR1 Creation Date.</div>
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You might ask why? Lately I have had to restore Backup save sets stored on our NFS file server to SIMH VAXes over a DECnet/DAP-to-NFS gateway I built a number of years ago. (I wrote to this group about it in a thread about RSTS/E 10.1-L and Paper tape on
January 6, 2016.) It takes about 2 days to restore an ~8GB disk image backup from the NFS server, though the gateway running on an SheevaPlug ARM SoC, to the SIMH VAX running on my desktop iMac. I am working from home at the moment, of course. I have become
good friends with GNU screen because of SSH inactivity disconnects and VPN failures. When I tried to restore a 75GB disk, expecting it to take 10-14 days, our "friendly" IT security monsters rebooted my iMac on me after 4 days. Grrr. I want to try breaking
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NFS file server</span> transfer step from the SIMH VAX restore operation. OpenVMS is not so easy as RSX was to read /FOREIGN disk drives as files. I could not figure out a way to just MOUNT a Backup save set as a SIMH disk image and get that to work. I was
able to use Mark's tar2mt converter and, using the proper OpenVMS MOUNT /RECORDSIZE and /BLOCKSIZE qualfiers, was able to read a Backup save set from an unlabeled tape image. Labeled tapes are easier to use then unlabeled tapes, since the file names and file
formats are on the tape with the file data. I know how to write ANSI tape labels, so I have taken it upon myself as a challenge to write a converter. I think this is the last piece I need for what I want it to do. I'll certainly announce it when it is done.</div>
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Thank you in advance for your help.</div>
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