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

[P. Sture]

In article <y6XN2OFmnuah at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <74jo28F13th6fU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill 
> Gunshannon) writes:
> > 
> > Yeah, and I remember doing SQUEEZE on my DEC disks.  Do we still have to
> > do that on VMS, I wonder?
> 
>    The last time I did a squeeze on a _disk_ was a Xerox Sigma 7, never on
>    any kind of DEC system.  But I did write my own SQUEEZE.FOR which
>    converted 300,000 lines of FORTRAN-IV from fixed length records with
>    line numbers starting in column 72 to variable length records
>    truncated from the right and saved about 50% of my RP02.

I remember doing a squeeze on RT-11 (RK05 and RL02 disks). IIRC the 
command was of the format

PIP RKn:/S

with V3.n DUP came along, with much (all?) of the functionality of PIP, 
and there was also a basic set of DCL like commands.

-- 
Paul Sture