[Info-vax] Disk image viewable in Windows/Linux

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In article <alpine.LFD.2.00.1108051406370.4139 at libra.gmcl.internal>, Rob Brown <mylastname at gmcl.com> writes:
>On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 at 10:09 +1000, Sum1 wrote:
>
>> Why do I want this?  As I have said several times, I *don't* want to 
>> mount the container on Linux or Windows to read the files and their 
>> contents in a record-oriented sense;  I want to be able to examine 
>> the binary disk structure, the location and contents of the 
>> meta-data, the location and contents of the files/directories/other 
>> stuff.
>
>Of course you can "examine the binary disk structure and ... other 
>stuff" on right on VMS without the added confusion and overhead of 
>windows or Linux.  And you would not need a container file either. 
>Simply examine the physical disk.
>
>   $ HELP DUMP

...or read the ODS-2 spec or a copy of the OpenVMS File System Internals!

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