You could use Glen Everhardt's program to read the physical tape and store it locally
in RMS format. Then you could move the RMS file across your cluster environment (or
access it directly) on a sim VAX to write to a simh simulated tape drive. The file
attached to the simh VAX simulated tape drive will be in simh format and will be readable
just find on a simh KS10.
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of
Robert Armstrong
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:53 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] VMS progtram for real tape -> TAP --> VMS copying through
clustering --> tenvax rtc
There's also a VMSTPCE program by Glen Everhardt that dumps magtapes to disk
container files and back again, but it uses RMS variable length record files for its
container. Each file record is one tape record. Not simh compatible, although I could
write a program to convert to tap format.
Bob