Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Ren¨¦ Ferland wrote: [...] If AWSBrowse says it can read it okay, then it's okay. Which should NOT have fixed anything. The file should still be identical to its original contents. If you still have
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Fish Fish
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#5586
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Ren¨¦ Very likely¡ http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=PETAPE <http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=PETAPE&ft=PROB&args=PETAPE#hit> &ft=PROB&args=PETAPE#hit probably won¡¯t get time
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Dave Wade
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
*On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 08:59 PM, Fish Fish wrote:* *AWSBrowse does not report anything, so I'm assuming the tape is okay. I applied AWSFixTape anyway just in case. Yet an error still occurs while
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Ren¨¦ Ferland
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#5584
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Fish wrote: [...] Found it! It's called VTT2DISK. It's on one of the CBT tapes. Sam Golob wrote an article on it in some mainframe magazine as I recall. Just do a Google on "VTT2DISK" and you'll find
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Fish Fish
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
I have found various copies of WATERLOO6 and they all check out the same, via MD5sum . The date is the date of the ABSTRACT ABSTRACT file. abele_waterloo.aws is From Bob's distribution. WATERLOO6.aws
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5582
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Re: DMSSMN109S in @@CRT0 running DIFF
Quite by accident, I found that the DIFF MODULE dated 2009-06-06 on the VM/370 CE 1.2 Y disk comes from the 591 disk on the GCCCMS user, which is described in GCCCMS MEMO on its 191 disk as "*GCC
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Ross Patterson
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Harold Grovesteen wrote: Very old versions of Hercules itself could indirectly create such tapes. The problem (bug) would occur when a previously used tape file (i.e. a non-empty .aws/.het file) was
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Fish Fish
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Mark, Just found that. There seems to be some issues with some of the early tapes, but generally PETAPE works ¡°a bit¡±¡ Dave Sent: Monday, April 1, 2024 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re:
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Dave Wade
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Dave, this leads to a couple more questions... Is Bloktap part of the R6 / CE distribution?? I can sort of understand it being there if the source is available so that someone might fix it. While I
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Harold Grovesteen
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Hi, Dave, The old WATERLOO tapes used "PETAPE" (Perkin-Elmer's locally modified version of the original CMS TAPE command).? For those versions of the SHARE VM Project Waterloo tapes, they also
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Mark Waterbury
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#5577
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Sorry, I meant 1.2 VMCE has BLOCKTAP included. Bob Bolch [email protected]> wrote:
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Bob Bolch
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#5576
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
BLOCKTAP runs on VMCE release 1.3 Bob Bolch
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Bob Bolch
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Harold, After looking back through the archives, it seems these were created with Bloktap which doesn¡¯t work on R6. Dave Sent: Monday, April 1, 2024 1:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re:
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Dave Wade
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Just curiosity I realize there seems to be some heritage involved in all of this, but does anyone know which tool creates the garbage? Is there a tool that removes the unexpected content from the AWS
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Harold Grovesteen
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Mark, I¡¯ll check these later, but many AWS tapes end in errors because one of the tools used to create them leaves garbage at the end of the file. Dave Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2024 11:48 PM To:
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Dave Wade
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
The other day I was browsing through the messages here and the message concerning Monitor files had this link: Some of these files are Waterloo tapes, while others are from VM Workshops. I downloaded
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Allan J. Winston
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#5571
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Hello! There's another problem folks. And it is not the fault of the three here named Dave, it is the problem of the maintainers of the CBT site. That page referenced earlier is now out of date. Oh
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Gregg Levine
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
I was scanning through the WATERLOO tapes which I got from here. WATERLOO2 and WATERLOO6 end with errors. Does any one have an alternate source for these? ... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5569
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Re: BREXX installation instructions
Several months later, I put all that stuff up on GitHub at https://github.com/RossPatterson/VMARC , because OOCities was a read-only mirror of the GeoCities site I built back around 2002 :-)? I did
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Ross Patterson
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File /sadump-s370.tar.gz uploaded
#file-notice
The following files and folders have been uploaded to the Files area of the [email protected] group. * /sadump-s370.tar.gz ( /g/h390-vm/files/sadump-s370.tar.gz ) *By:* Harold
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Group Notification <noreply@...>
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