vax/unix to vax/vms

[Paul Jensen]

I can think of 3 ways to do this, listed more or less in increasing
order of difficulty:

	o   install DEC/Shell on your VMS system.  This product provides
	    a Bourne Shell environment under VMS, and includes all the
	    common utilities, including tar.

	o   use dd to output your file to tape as fixed-length records
	    (assuming your data is text) and some reasonable length.
	    On the VMS side, $MOUNT/FOREIGN the tape and use the
	    $CONVERT/FDL utility to deblock the tape.  This is
	    messy but I have done it sucessfully in the past.

	o   write or acquire a unix-based utility that writes ANSI
	    labelled tapes.  I have heard that there are a couple of
	    programs like this floating around.  Be forwarned, however,
	    that the ANSI standard has loopholes & there is no guarantee
	    that one machine can read what another writes.

					--- Paul Jensen
					    Digital Equipment Corporation