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NAME

       vmsbackup - read a VMS backup tape

SYNOPSIS

       vmsbackup -{tx}[cdenvw][s setnumber][f tapefile] [ name ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       vmsbackup  reads  a VMS generated backup tape, converting the files to Unix format and writing the files to disc.  The default operation of
       the program is to go through an entire tape, extracting every file and writing it to disc.  This may be modified by the following options.

       c       Use complete filenames, including the version number.  A colon and the octal version number will be appended to all  filenames.	 A
	       colon,  rather than a semicolon, is used since the Unix Shell uses the semicolon as the line separator.	Using a colon prevents the
	       user from having to escape the semicolon when referencing the filename.	This option is useful only when multiple versions  of  the
	       same  file  are	on  a  single tape or when a file of the same name already exists in the destination directory.  The default is to
	       ignore version numbers.

       d       use the directory structure from VMS, the default value is off.

       e       Process all filename extensions.  Since this program is mainly intended to move source code and possibly data from a DEC system	to
	       a  Unix	system, the default is to ignore all files whose filename extension specifies system dependent data.  The file types which
	       will be ignored, unless the e option is specified, are

		 exe	 VMS executable file
		 lib	 VMS object library file
		 obj	 RSX object file
		 odl	 RSX overlay description file
		 olb	 RSX object library file
		 pmd	 RSX post mortem dump file
		 stb	 RSX task symbol table file
		 sys	 RSX bootable system file
		 tsk	 RSX executable task file

       f       Use the next argument in the command line as the tape device to be used, rather than the default.

	       If vmsbackup is compiled with the remote tape option and the file name has the form system[.user]:/dev/???  vmsbackup will use  the
	       tape  drive  /dev/??? on the remote system system, via rsh(1), and rmt(8).  The optional user portion of the pathname specifies the
	       login name to use on the remote system.	If it is not supplied, the current user's login name will be used.  In all the cases,  the
	       user  must  have the appropriate permissions on the remote machine, in order to use this facility.  The default is /dev/rmt8 (drive
	       0, raw mode, 1600 bpi).	This must be a raw mode tape device.

       n       If the tape has a variable-length record format, then do not append a newline onto the end of the records.  This  option  does  not
	       affect stream or FORTRAN files.

       s saveset
	       Process only the given saveset number.

       t       Produce a table of contents (a directory listing) on the standard output of the files on tape.

       v       Verbose	output.   Normally  vmsbackup does its work silently.  The verbose option will cause the filenames of the files being read
	       from tape to disk to be output on the standard output.

       w       vmsbackup prints the action to be taken followed by file name, then wait for user confirmation. If a word  beginning  with  `y'	is
	       given, the action is done. Any other input means don't do it.

       x       extract the named files from the tape.

       The optional
	       name argument specifies one or more filenames to be searched for specifically on the tape and only those files are to be processed.
	       The name may contain the usal sh(1) meta-characters *?![] 0n.

FILES

       /dev/rmtx

SEE ALSO

       rmtops(3)

BUGS

       The filename match uses the complete VMS file names.

AUTHOR

       John Douglas Carey
       Sven-Ove Westberg

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