[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[JF Mezei]

smithfarm wrote:

> SimH (a VAX emulator that runs on Linux and Windows) will not help in 
> this case: with it you can fire up an emulated VAX and install VMS on 
> it, but SimH lacks the functionality for connecting a real, physical LTO 
> drive to the emulated VAX.


Aren't VMS tapes created with ANSI standards ? Shouldn't even Windows or
a Unix be able to read the header followed by the saveset files from the
VMS tape ?

>From there, you can invoke SIMH to use backup on the saveset that is now
on disk. (You need to create some shared access between the windows and
VMS file systems to allow VMS to read the save set form thw windows file
system.  I am not sure if simh can do that.