83JUL24 From: Dave Leonard Joe Bingham Advanced Data Management ManTech International 15-17 Main Street 2320 Mill Road Kingston, NJ 08528 Alexandria, VA 22314 (609) 799 4600 (703) 838 5600 To: Nodes of the VAX SIG Tape Distribution Tree for Spring 1983 This is a HUGE tape, over 96000 blocks. As a result it has been split into two save sets, VAX83A and VAX83B. The tape has been produced with the /INTERCHANGE switch which will allow tape to tape copy. See the VMS 3.3 release notes for the /INTERCHANGE documentation. To copy tape to tape use the following syntax: $ mount mta0: vax000 $ initialize/density=1600 mta1: vax000 $ mount mta1: vax000/blocksize=7952 !note the /BLOCK SWITCH $ copy mta0:*.*;* mta1:*.*;* $ dismount mta0: $ dismount mta1: !repeat the above for the second tape of the set There are three different save sets on the two tapes. The first tape contains VAX000 and VAX83A which load into [VAX000...] and [VAX83A...]. The second tape contains a duplicate copy of VAX000 and VAX83B. VAX83B loads into [VAX83B...]. Loaded sizes are 7525 for [VAX000...], 51500 for [VAX83A...] and 44600 for [VAX83B...], assuming a disk with a cluster factor of one. The recommended method of loading the tape is the following: $ delete [vax000...]*.*;* !ignore warnings $ mount/foreign mta0: $ backup mta0:vax000 ddcu:[*...] !ddcu: is device to load to $ backup mta0:vax83a ddcu:[*...] $ dismount mta0: !and put on the second tape $ mount/foreign mta0: $ backup mta0:vax83b ddcu:[*...] You should now have the whole mess. Similar procedures can be used to copy the VAX79A through VAX82A tapes from the consolidated tape being distributed at this time. [VAX000]COPYTREES.COM provides a convenient way to make tapes for distribution. Please copy this note (which is on [VAX000] as 83ABMEMO.TXT) and forward it with outgoing tapes. Dave Leonard Joe Bingham