[HECnet] OpenVMS Backup

Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> writes: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- <system at tmesis.com> wrote: h vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> writes: {HTML elided} Could you not post HTML??? -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity. Hello! (And I perhaps understand the ways of machines with the wisdom of one of my favorite characters.) I can't speak for why the VMS system is behaving strangely concerning the backup functions of its CDs, but I can for how one of us is BACKUP is not behaving strangely at all. Its purpose was for doing BACKUP and RESTORE. If you do NOT place (restore) files on the volume into their original configuration, it is/was considered a new file and thus, receives new file creation and modification dates and times. I was elaborating on this very aspect of the file system in the OpenVMS File Systems Internals V2 book when HP nixed it. posting. Some of us use our portable devices for participation on these lists. They in turn have default setting which can not be changed. That setting sadly is HTML. (Or something close enough.) I read most of my email, assuming it's text, on VMS. If the email has a MIME encoding or attachment, I read it on my Linux or OS X boxes. It's not that I can't read it, it's just annoying to see that much "crap" for a simple one line response. Hans's emails are so gobbledegook that it's difficult to read through the HTML tags to see if it's worth the effort to preview it on the Linux or OS X system. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.