[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4ce9577f$0$9605$c3e8da3$e408f015 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 
> 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 ?

   Not always, but since it's a BACKUP tape, we know that it has ANSI
   labels, but did not use standard error processing unless the user
   used /exchange.  Utiltities like the Saveset Manager and TCOPY know
   how to deal with this.

   IMHO, getting anything off a tape and onto a Windows system is a
   problem best solved by a non-Windows system.  All the tape drives
   I've ever seen on Windows were understood only by the backup/restore
   software that they came with.