[Info-vax] Locally mount vms volumes in Linux

[Graham Burley]

In article <a398373b-e992-44cd-ad16-8f657e9e6703 at by6g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, "gregor.oelze" <gregor.oelze at gmail.com> writes:
>though. As far as i know these are compiled programs, that have to
>be transfered to the other host.

If they're EXEs then you just need the blocks, and a binary ftp transfer
ought to keep the target system happy.

sim> set -l rq2 rauser=10000
sim> at rq2 export.dsk
RQ: creating new file

$ dir/siz a.exe;

Directory DUA1:[USER.GB]

A.EXE;11                   7

Total of 1 file, 7 blocks.
$ mount/for dua2:
%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED,  mounted on _SIMPLE$DUA2:
$ copy a.exe dua2:
$ dism dua2:

(back on host)
# dd count=7 if=export.dsk of=a.exe

Then ftp a.exe ...