vmsbackup (again)

[Mark Callow]

In article <9009112017.AA12162 at remote.dccs.upenn.edu>, YATES at C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU
("Yates, John H.") writes:
|>
|> vmsbackup -tvf /dev/rmt/xmt0d0nr.1600
|> 
|> I get:
|> 
|> Snark: Invalid header block size
|> Volume: TEX
|> Saveset name: TEX.BCK   number: 1

My guess is that vmsbackup needs to do some byte swapping when running on an
IRIS.  Was it originally written to run on UNIX on a VAX?
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