[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[Graham Burley]

In article <589e0074-3079-4585-a121-5b0ea27e5ab0 at u12g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>, "gregor.oelze" <gregor.oelze at gmail.com> writes:
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>Thats why i was hoping to "shortcut" the problem with mounting the
>dsk(dd-image) and extract the changed files and transfer them via
>ftp client on the ubuntu host.

Transfer them to another VMS system running on what? SIMH or real
hardware? It makes a differece. Both are possible using the SIMH
hosted VMS system that you have running using the dd image, and
IMHO far easier than putzing around with ODS-2 reader software, 
and more likely to get the files intact and with correct attributes
to the target system.

If your target is on SIMH then create a small disk image, attach it
in SIMH, INIT & MOUNT it in VMS, copy your files to it, and then
transfer that disk image to the target system. This method will
also work when transferring to a VMS system on real hardware which
has LD (logical disk driver) installed which you can use to mount
the SIMH disk image.

If your target is on real hardware without LD then it's more fiddly
but possible.