[vcf-midatlantic] Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs

Dave Wade dave.g4ugm at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 13:10:05 EDT 2017


All the VMS Images I have, even the ones from Digital have ".iso" extensions so I assume some software "barfs" at other extensions. When I started playing with VMS images I assumed they were ISO but quickly found out they are not, they are just block dumps of the filing system, and I believe if you have a Linux system you can just DD them to a partition and then mount under VMS. There is a vast collection of VAX images at vaxhaven.com again all as ".iso" files...

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-
> bounces at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of J. Alexander
> Jacocks via vcf-midatlantic
> Sent: 04 June 2017 17:02
> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>
> Cc: J. Alexander Jacocks <jjacocks at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Found: VMS Hobbyist CDs
> 
> There's really not a standard for non-ISO9660 image files.  You can use .img or
> .cdr, which both seem to be in common use.
> 
> - Alex
> 
> On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-
> midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> 
> > So what should such files be called?
> >
> > On 4 Jun 2017 07:16, "Brian Schenkenberger via vcf-midatlantic" <
> > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic writes:
> > >
> > > >The content might not be ISO but the file extension is.. Usable by
> > > >SIMH on the Pc....
> > >
> > > The extension means nothing.  You could call it .DOGFART and it'd
> > > still function.
> > >
> > >
> >




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