[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[Michael Kraemer]

Bob Eager schrieb:

> It's a pretty trivial job, because one doesn't have to teach a UNIX 
> system (or a Windows one) to understand it.

well, not quite. If one wants to read an ANSI tape properly,
i.e. including the extra information it provides (file names,
dates, etc), one indeed has to invest some extra efforts.

> One reads the tape, stores 
> the data in each block, and remembers where teh tape marks are. The SIMH 
> 'tape file' format is easy, and *that* is what one is aiming for. Then 
> you attach it to the simulated VAX as a tape drive, and just use it...