[Info-vax] Transferring file to VMS emulated in SIMH

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-12-31 01:13:25 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2018-12-28, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> OpenVMS officially lacks FAT and exFAT support, even on the current releases.
> 
> Going at this from the other end, I've never seen a user mode Linux 
> utility to write ODS-2 volumes (something like the old VMS based PCX 
> utility but for ODS-2) but a long time ago someone wrote a Linux kernel 
> mode filesystem driver for ODS-2.

Some of the ODS Reader tools that I'm aware of were included on the Freeware.
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/ods-2-reader-for-osf-1/
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/ods-2-reader/
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/ods2/

There've been others.

Prolly easier to get the network configured and going, and transfer the 
files that way.   Or send files via ISO-9660:1988, if you really need 
the local transfers in the absence of add-on FAT tools on OpenVMS, or 
ilk.

Bootstrapping the first OpenVMS system is always the most difficult 
part for the new-to-OpenVMS hobbyists.  There've been discussions about 
fixing that, though those discussions always hinged on then-HP granting 
permission to re-kit OpenVMS for hobbyists.


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