[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bob Eager]

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:31:20 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> > I have never tried it, but I would imagine it is perfectly doable to
> > take a VMS disk, hook it up to a unix box and read the data from it.
> > 
> Of course you could read the data from it!  But Unix would probably not 
> understand what space was in use and what was free.  You could find and 
> read files only with great difficulty.  You would have to port a big 
> chunk of RMS to read files and make sense of them.

Well, not that large a chunk. I wrote a program to do this a while ago, 
and it could read the most common kinds of files (variable length record
text files). It wouldn't have been hard to extend it. My program ran on 
OS/2, but all but the low level disk access (actually easier on UNIX 
than on OS/2) would have ported easily.


-- 
Bob Eager