"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
The question
is, how can I get a copy of a pack as a
binary image onto the PC ? (to load in simh for example ?)
I don't suppose you
have access to a MicroVAX? I always do this under VMS,
and then FTP the data over to a UNIX system. Unfortuantly I'm not sure how
you can do this under RT-11, however, I'd guess that at a minimum you'd need
a RL02 drive and pack to hold the image for transfer over the the PC.
Jerome Fine replies:
Perhaps you missed my earlier reply. I would seriously doubt that the RL01,
with the XXDP diagnostics software ????, would be full. As such, setting up
a logical device on another RL01 with just the number of blocks to hold all
the actual files on the XXDP RL01 pack would be sufficient. Then just us
COPY/DEVICE DL1: LD0:
The trick is in finding out how many actual blocks are needed. For that use:
DUMP/TERM DL1:/START:1234.
to find out where the data blocks stop. The RL01 on DL0: can the hold
the logical file to be sent via Kermit to the PC for permanent archiving.
In general, I always removed the repeated blocks at the end of a removable
media when archiving a copy to a logical device.
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Jerome Fine
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