reading rsts 7.1 disks from OpenVMS

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Mon Aug 11 17:21:00 2003

> Zane,
>
> At 2:20 PM -0700 8/11/03, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >> case 1) is better). I have the V7 Mayfield book (but haven't scanned it
> >> for the 'net yet) and wrote a program on the Mac to read the V7 (RDS-0)
> >> structure. So it _can_ be done.
> >
> >So, is this Mac program something that will build on a standard UNIX system?
>
> High probability. It was originally built as an MPW tool; MPW is very
> Unix-like. I could probably clean it up a bit and verify that it actually
> works correctly under a few flavors of Unix. [You mean someone else would
> want to use this? :-) ]
>
> John

OK, the way you wrote the initial statement I figured it might be pre OS-X
code. I personally (at this time at least) don't have any need for such a
program, but I can see where others might.

                        Zane
Received on Mon Aug 11 2003 - 17:21:00 BST