[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[smithfarm]

JF:

I'm sure you're correct that it would be possible to read a stream of 
bytes from the tape on a Unix box using something like dd. Then, I 
suppose, you could use a binary editor to discard the VMS header. Then 
you'd have to break the data down into the individual files of the 
saveset (.A, .B. etc.), right? BTW How do you know how many files there 
are - or do all savesets have the same number of files? How do you know 
where the end of the saveset is?

But if I read correctly, all these questions are moot because the OP is 
looking for a quick-and-easy solution under Windows, which is not going 
to happen since Windows in all likelihood will just produce a fatal 
error message when it tries to read the VMS header (I have not tried 
this but apparently the OP already did).

Jan-Erik:

The problem that occurs is with the VMS version number, which some FTP 
clients choke on. That would happen with a ZIP file as well.

> Anyway, the final solution very much depends on what the
> goal with all this is.

Agreed.