OpenVMS utilities & system help

[Jan van den Ende]

Wade,

sorry for the delay.
(1 April is the date that (in 1572) my home town was the first to be liberated from Spanish occupation. It is considered the beginning of our nation, and is heavily re-enacted each year. I have a part in that, so...)

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%BACKUP-F-STRUCLEV
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VMS has for a long time had OnlineDiskStructure-2 (ODS-2), fairly recently ODS-5 was introduced. (fully upward compatible, but not downward).
Your source disk looks like ODS-5, and I have forgotten to add /STRUCT=5 to your INIT command.
Backup tried to copy a file with ODS-5 enhanced features to the ODS-2 disk, and did so as well as possible, but reported that it could not fully succeed.
2 ways to solve this:
- INIT again WITH STRUCT=5
- SET VOLUME /STRUCT=5
and redo the BACKUP

(no way back, except a full new INIT )

In your answer to Robert, /LIMIT=5.
This is a typo. yes?

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Jan van den Ende]

Beuh! Crazy typo:

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OnlineDiskStructure-2
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Should of course be OnDiskStructure-2

Must be some weird mind process that made me type this, and not even notice un proofreading.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[WADE S]

JPE,

No, that's not a typo.
Should it have been /limit=5G, or something of that nature. Like I said, I'm not an OpenVMS user, so I wasn't sure.

Also, I set up DECwindows, but it doesn't appear that I can do much as far as GUI based utilities. So are any of the command line utilities available as GUI based utilities in DECwindows?

Once again, I really appreciate the help.

[WADE S]

I don't believe I need anymore help on this.
Thanks Gentlemen.