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

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Mon Feb 20 16:11:17 EST 2023


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?
> Thanks, Graham
>

Get access to an Alpha with optical drive, read the disk, then ZIP the data and 
move to wherever.

Get someone with the environment to do the above for you.

I'm not sure if any of my optical drives still work ...

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