[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
> Bob Eager schrieb:
 
>> Not really. An ANSI tape consists merely of blocks and tape marks. Some 
>> of the blocks are quite small and contain the filenames, labels, etc., 
>> and some contain data. One merely has to read them, store each block at 
>> its correct size, and store the mini-blocks that make up the tape marks. 
>> ANSI is irrelevant; 
 
> no it's not.
> If I want to read an ANSI tape "properly"
> this implies I want to lookup the files by name
> or maybe I would copy all files to disk preserving
> name and date, etc. That's the extra information
> ANSI tapes provide. Otherwise I wouldn't use ANSI tapes.

As the OP didn't specify the overall goal, one can't say.

One can store all the information, including block boundaries,
on the USB, then recreate an ANSI tape on another system, or
directly read a virtual tape image on another system.
In those cases, the intermediate system doesn't need to know
anything about ANSI to read it "properly."

-- glen