Restore OpenVMS backup to different platform

[rbhagwat]

Thanks a lot for everyone's response on this.
I have got some pretty useful answers with
new readings and contact points.

The question also has been answered. Instead
of porting top-down (I started with GNV, Make
etc. which is the usual UNIX-to-UNIX porting).

Now what we are doing is bottom-up approach.
I am writing smaller modules using RMS or
system services (or even CRTL in some cases)
to build small utilities (programs) for FS
operations.

Hoping to consolidate this together and then
fit in upwards.

[John McL]

Are you intending reading these files on the non-VMS system or is it only somewhere to store them?

Have you looked at leaving them on the VMS system and accesing them remotely via ftp or similar? Or better yet, having a file server on the VMS system so that it can take full advantage of RMS?