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

Single Stage to Orbit alex.buell at munted.eu
Mon Feb 20 16:17:21 EST 2023


On Mon, 2023-02-20 at 13:49 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

On Linux there is the ods5 kernel module one could use. Unfortunately I
only have the binaries and it only works on 32bit Linux. Wish I knew
what happened to the sources. 
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