[Info-vax] Any tool or ideas how to mount a VMS CD on Windows or Linux?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/20/2023 1:42 PM, Graham Jagger wrote:
> Hey there folks. I have an old CD I burned on an Alphastation a long
> time ago. As it turns out that is the only remaining copy of ever DCL
> script I've ever written! Duh... I should have put it all in a zip
> file and just ftp'd it over to my PC and didn't. I have a Windows 10
> machine and of course there is no Mount/foreign or other concept I
> know of. I've searched for tools or ideas with Google and got
> nowhere. I am open to doing a temporary install of some Linux variant
> if it can be done on Linux. I've look through the past couple of
> years of posts but don't see anything. Has anyone done this here?

If the CD is in ISO 9660 then you should be able
to just mount it on the Windows PC.

If the CD is in ODS-2/ODS-5 format then it is a problem
as Windows cannot read those.

Possible options:
- get a VMS system up and running (VMS Alpha on VM should
   be the by far easiest solution), mount it there and
   create ZIP and transfer again.
- let someone with a running VMS system download the image
   and return a ZIP to you
- more let us call it exotic solutions trying to read ODS-2/5
   on non-VMS

Arne