VMS command question and help, off-topic

From: Adrien Farkas <freddy_at_kotelna.sk>
Date: Sat Jan 18 04:15:02 2003

Hello VMS folks,

just a very simple question, what does a command like this do:

BACKUP MULTIA_V72.BCK/SAVE DVA0:/IMAGE/VERIFY

(it's alpha vms, so not sure whether floppy is named DVA0: on VAXen,
too).

I know basicaly what this does, my question is whether the .BCK file has
some special format or whether UNIX command like this:

   $ cat MULTIA_V72.BCK > /dev/diskette0

or

   $ dd if=MULTIA_V72.BCK of=/dev/diskette0

is equivalent.

If it's some special format, were it possible that you issue this
command for me on some VMS and grab the diskette raw file and make it
available for me? the image is available at
http://www.kotelna.sk/freddy/multia_v72.bck (1419264 bytes).

Cheers,

-- 
					freddy
...for more info 'finger freddy_at_kotol.kotelna.sk'

Received on Sat Jan 18 2003 - 04:15:02 GMT